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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Home Guide; 



OR 



Cure Without Drugs, 



THE DISCOVERY OF THE 



Essence or Seeds of Disease, 



AND 



THE NATURAL REMEDIES. 



The Greatest Discovert on Earth. Contains Full 

Directions as to Food and Bathing, and 

Many Practical Hints. 



BY DR. L. H. KERSEY, H. G. 



PRICE, FIVE DOLLARS. Copies can be obtained by mail 
of the author, by addressing, with check or 
money order, or of Agents. 



INDIANAPOLIS: 
JOURNAL JOB PRINT. 

1888. 




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Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year 1888, 

By L. H. Kkrsky, H. G , 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



PREFACE. 



In offering the Home Guide to the public, the 
author is aware that it will meet opposition and per- 
haps ridicule. Combatting and overthrowing, as it 
does, long cherished theories and superstitions ; ex- 
posing as it must, the ignorance and craftiness of 
practitioners of old systems, the Guide expects to 
lind most of its friends among those who are not 
enslaved by traditional notions, if not entirely free 
from their shadows. Of one thing, at least, the 
author is certain, namely, that in the following pages 
he recommends no remedy which has not been suc- 
cessful in his own ailments or those of others ; in 
fact, most of these remedies have been verified in 
both ways. 

The author also desires to state that he can take 
any person, treat him as directed herein, and within 
six hours have him in perfect condition to resist 
smallpox, yellow fever, or any other contagious 
disease. 

However novel and startling the author's explana- 
tions, or however foolish the treatments may appear 
to be, he hopes that all his readers will exercise that 
justice which requires that condemnation must never 
go before a fair trial. And that is all the author 
asks — a fair and impartial test. 

DR. L. H. KERSEY, H. G, 

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



INDEX 



PAGE. 

About a Fish 241 

Affidavits and Statements 35 

Air 195 

Alcohol and Life 210 

Alcohol in the Human Body 207 

A Little Advice 215 

Analysis of the Human Structure 166 

Ashes as a Fertilizer 237 

Asthma 104 

A Word to the Ladies 226 

Bad Breath 118 

Bad Cold 25 

Bald-Head 100 

Beef Tea 236 

Bilious Fever '. 82 

Biliousness 63 

Bleeding at the Nose 213 

Bleeding Piles 101 

Blurred or Dim Sight 128 

Brain Fever.. 84 

Bright's Disease 96 

Broken-Down Tissue 15 

Bronchitis 99 

Burns 149 

Cancer -. 107 

Internal 127 

Canned Fruits 244 

Canned Tomatoes 243 

Carbon, or Oil and Grease 199 

Catarrh of the Head 95 

Cause Our Own Troubles 219 

Change in the Human Structure 168 

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VI INDEX. 

PAGE. 

Chills and Fever.. 87 

Cholera 74 

Cholera Morbus 109 

Cold Feet 231 

Colic 120 

Congestion — 

Of the Brain 90 

Of the Liver 89 

Of the Lungs 91 

Of the Stomach 92 

Congestive Chills 89 

Constipation 102 

Consumption 8 

Continuance to Urinate 102 

Cramps 115 

Crick in the Back 114 

Croup 145 

Cure for Diseases 29 

Cuts 147 



Dandruff 112 

Deafness 128 

Diabetes 96 

Diarrhoea 97 

Debit and Credit 236 

Diphtheria 126 

Disinfectants 134 

Dropsy 68 

Drowning ~ 136 

Dyspepsia 124 

Ear Ache Ill 

Essence or Seeds of Disease 1 

Erysipelas 30 

Extracts 59 

Eyes, Sore 100 

Granulated 100 

Fainting 112 

Fat and Healthy 234 

Fats 195 

Fat Makes Heat 161 



INDEX. VI 1 

PAGE. 

Feeliug or Tasting, Which? 202 

Female Diseases 110 

Fevers— 

Brain 84 

Bilious 82 

Chills and 87 

Intermittent 88 

Hay 84 

Lung 81 

Scarlet 85 

Spotted 86 

Swamp 83 

Typhoid 80 

Yellow 77 

Fits 105 

Follies of Man 204 

Food — 

Healthy 221 

Nature's 214 

Perfect 185 

Foul Air 197 

Foul Blood 67 

Freezing 212 

General Instructions 57 

Glucose 233 

Hair Dyes 232 

Hasty Eating 211 

Healthy Food 221 

Healthy Houses 224 

Heartburn 113 

Heart Disease 93 

Heat 157 

Fat Makes 161 

Hemorrhage of the Lungs „ 130 

Hoarseness 119 

Hog-Eaters 193 

"Hot Springs" at Home 156 

How to Cure a Sprain. 118 

Human Structure 162 

Analysis of 166 

Change of 168 



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PAGE. 

Ice Water at Meals 233 

Impurities in the Blood 66 

Inflammatory Rheumatism 107 

Insanity 71 

Instruction in Schools 217 

Intermittent Fever 88 

Internal Cancer 127 

Kidney Affections 73 

Law Protects Wolves but not Sheep 240 

Lighten Labor 216 

Liquid Ruin 240 

Liver Complaint 92 

Lung Fever 81 

Malaria a Humbug 150 

Measles 104 

Meningitis 122 

Mumps 103 

My Experience 30 

My Wife's Experience— 

Catarrh of the Head 142 

Mumps 144 

With Dessey Kersey 144, 145 

With May Kersey 144 

With Chills and Fever , . 146 

Nature's Food '. 214 

Nervous Headache 98 

Neuralgia ... 124 

Old Sayings and Old Hobbies 239 

Paralysis 75 

Parasites •. 153 

Patent Medicines and Drugs 238 

Perfect Food 185 

Physical Culture 227 

Piles : '. 70 

Pimples and Spots on the Skin. 139 

Poison in the Body : 154 

Powerful Animals 192 



INDEX. IX 

PAGE. 

Practical Hints and Information 231 

Prond Flesh 141 

Keceipt for Salve 148 

Regular Bath 213 

Rest 232 

Rheumatism 65 

Ring Worm 139 

Rotten Matter 133 

Salt 232 

Salt Rheum 138 

Scarlatiua - 122 

Scarlet Fever 85 

Sciatic Pains 125 

Scrofula 76 

Setting Trees and Plants : 244 

Sick Headache 98 

Sight 128 

Skin Diseases in General 132 

Sleeplessness 131 

Smallpox 5 

Sneezing 117 

Softening of the Brain 116 

Sore Throat and Bronchial Tubes 99 

Spinal Affection 121 

Spotted Fever 86 

St. Anthony's Dance 123 

Stitch in the Side 114 

Summer Complaint 106 

Sunlight 234 

Sunstroke 135 

Sugar and Other Seeds of Disease 140 

Swamp Fever 83 

Tetter 146 

Thin and Tight Shoes 231 

Torpid or Inactive Liver 131 

True Art of Healing 56 

Tumors 147 

Typhoid Fever 80 

Ulcers 129 

Unmixed Folly 235 



X INDEX. 

PAGE. 

Vegetarian Society Gl 

Vomiting 116 

Water 170 

A Health Agent 178 

Way to Keep Sick 183 

Wen 127 

What Other People Say 52 

Whooping Cough 109 

Work and Waste 235 

Worms 103 

Yellow Fever 77 

Yellow Jaundice 108 



THE ESSENCE 



OR 



Substance of Diseases. 



The essence or substance or seed of disease, has 
been the study of doctors, professors, and all classes 
of scientists, for many years. All had agreed and 
acknowledged that it had never been discovered. 
Knowing this to be the fact, from a lecture of Pro- 
fessor Gross, M. D., I, in 1875, set myself to find 
or discover this essence or substance which caused 
diseases, at Mnncie, Ind. I made a start. The 
proprietor of a hotel told me what had happened in 
his family. His daughter had consumption, and the 
doctors gave her up to die. The smallpox broke out 
in Muncie and his family was attacked by it. The 
daughter who had consumption took the smallpox, 
and a large quantity of corruption was thrown out 
by the disease. She got well of that, and when well 
of smallpox she had no cough, and no trace or symp- 
tom or indication of consumption. She began to 
improve at once and got well, stout and hearty, and 
at the time I saw her she weighed a hundred and 
sixty pounds. There I caught the idea of the source 
or seed of disease. What was that purulent matter 



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or corruption thrown out by the smallpox? I would 
try at once to discover that. So I went to work and 
found what that was. I kept on investigating while 
I traveled many thousands of miles in my business. 
I found that smallpox cured any and all chronic 
diseases, and discovered fully what the corruption 
was that smallpox throws off, and thus found, un- 
questionably the seeds or essence or substance of 
diseases. 

I wrote President Palmer, of the Medical College 
at Ann Arbor, Mich., that I had discovered the 
essence or substance of diseases, and I could cure 
any disease easily. He wrote me a letter to come to 
Ann Arbor. I went ; found him to be an old man, 
and I did not feel like unfolding my discovery to 
him. So I asked for a professor who was not over 
thirty-five or thirty-eight years old. My reason for 
this was, that I had found it difficult or impossible to 
change the opinions of a man over forty years old, 
while I find with men of thirty to thirty-five that I 
can convince them far more readily. He sent me a 
man whom I found to be a gentleman in all respects, 
Professor Dwight. He had been professor at Ann 
Arbor six years, and in Cincinnati, Ohio, three years, 
and was thirty-three years old. My questions were : 
44 Do you know all you want to know? Do you 
know what the essence or substance of disease is? 
Have you any number of remedies that ever cured 
any one disease satisfactorily to you?" Then I con- 
tinued: "Now, sir, let me ask you a few more 
questions, and will you treat me fair and square, and 
answer them to the best of your ability? " He said, 
"Yes, sir." I said, "Now, sir, say you was to 
bring me a man who you knew had had rheumatism for 
six months and one whose muscles had never been con- 
tracted. Let me have charge of that man, take him, 
expose him to smallpox ; let him have smallpox, get 
well of it, all the corrupt matter cast out of him, and 
when well of smallpox, what about the rheumatism ; 



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would he be well of that, too?" Answer, "Yes, 
sir." Question again : " Well, if one were afflicted 
with consumption in the second stage and take the 
smallpox, and all the rotten matter be cast out and 
he get well of the smallpox, what about the consump- 
tion ; would he be well of consumption, too?" An- 
swer, "Yes, sir." 

" Now, sir, say you would bring me a man with 
liver complaint (so called) ; let me have charge of 
him ; say I take him and expose him to smallpox, 
let him have that disease and have all the rotten, 
corrupt matter cast out of him, and he gets well of 
smallpox, what about the liver complaint?" Answer, 
" He would be well of liver complaint." I continued, 
" Now, Professor, I will show you that liver complaint 
is a hobby; at the same time I will admit his liver 
would be affected, but no more or less than the whole 
human structure. I say he would be equally affected 
from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head." 
Question. " Where is this corrupt matter cast out? 
Is it not from the soles of his feet to the crown of 
his head?" Answer, "Yes, sir." "Now, Pro- 
fessor, I want to show you something perhaps you 
never thought of," said I to him. "Say you were 
to bring me two men. Say their weight was a 
hundred and seventy pounds ; brothers, farmers who 
had never been vaccinated for smallpox, and had 
eaten freely of fat pork, lard in biscuits, butter, 
sugar, molasses, etc. We will call them No. 1 and 
No. 2. Give me charge of No. 1 ; let me take him, 
expose him to smallpox, feed him the food just 
named, to which he is accustomed, and let him have 
smallpox, and say he gets well of that; please 
tell me how many pounds of corrupt matter you 
would guess would be thrown out of such a man? " 
Answer, " Perhaps twelve to sixteen pounds of such 
corruption would be cast out." Question : " Now, 
Professor, is their anything without a cause?" 
"No, sir." 'Is there anything without a sub- 



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stance? " " No, sir." "Then there is a cause for 
smallpox?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know what 
t hat cause is? " " No , si r . " " Please let me make 
my statement." " Go ahead." 

This is my statement : " If I can show to you to 
your full satisfaction that all of that corruption cast 
out of No. 1 ought not to have been in him, and 
what it is in full, will that satisfy you?" "Yes." 
* "Now, say I take No. 2, giving him the same kind 
of food, and admit that there is the same amount of 
rotten matter in his system. To prove it in full, I 
take him, diet him, or feed him perfect food for 
thirty days, with nothing to drink but water, bathe 
him once a week, give him ordinary exercise, plenty 
of pure air, food to be Graham bread — of wheat, oats 
or rye — fruits with not much acid, and watery vege- 
tables, and expose him to smallpox, what would be 
the consequence?" " He would not have smallpox." 
"If I can get a man to diet twelve or fifteen days, 
the smallpox will not hurt him. It may make him 
a little sick, and his skin turn red and be thick, but 
pits will not form.". 

Now see what he says about this, and here is where 
I destroy the old idea of malaria. No. 2 has breathed 
the same matter in the air all the time as No. 1, and 
no rotten material, malaria or poison has got into him. 
Where has it gone? Taken wings and flown away. 
This comparison kills malaria and poison dead. Now, 
reader, does it not look reasonable that whatever car- 
ried this rotten matter out of the system of No. 2, 
would do it in all manner of diseases? He would 
never take a drug, and yet all the diseased material 
is orone. What will do it in that case will hold £ood 
in all other cases ; and that is the water, called 
" blood," but the water has to do all the work. Now, 
when you have a cold the pores or holes of the skin 
are closed like painting a piece of muslin. Water 
will not run through the painted muslin, so the cor- 
rupt matter and broken-down tissue will not pass 



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through the skin in a cold. Then the blood carries 
it back, to the head, nose and lungs. You sneeze ; 
hot matter, or water and matter run out of your 
nose and make it sore and hot ; the lungs till up and 
become sore and hot, and this hot matter decomposes 
or decays the lungs like the nose, for what will 
rot and decay the skin in the nose will rot or decay 
the lungs, head or flesh, and cause pain or heat. 

Now, look at or think of a person who takes 
typhoid fever. It commences with a cold in the 
head and lungs ; fills them full of decayed matter 
and broken-down tissue ; the nose gets sore and 
hot : the flesh pains, for the corruption settles all 
over the whole human structure, and all the organs 
and even the brain are filled full. This stuff is cor- 
ruption, and it rots sound flesh, causing pain, and it is 
the fuel causing the heat called fever, which is only 
common heat like that produced by common sub- 
stances. No witch or ghost or some " kill-all " does 
it, but about twelve to sixteen pounds of decayed 
matter in a grown person. Here you see the folly 
of taking a drug or patent medicine to open the 
pores and remove all this mass of corruption out of 
the system. You had better try to dip the ocean 
dry with a tin-cup. It is impossible. 



Smallpox 



Smallpox is only the corruption thrown out of 
the system made up of butter, lard, sugar, fat pork, 
molasses, white flour, salt, and many other like sub- 
stances. The Creator did not make butter in the 
form man takes it, nor hundreds of other things. 
He made all that was necessary for the needs of our 



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bodies to build them up aud supply their waste. 
This is the object of all proper and wholesome food. 
It never was intended for man to eat three or four 
times as much as was needed for the wants and 
waste of the body, or to use food only for the flavor 
and pleasure of the taste. All food taken in excess 
of the needs of the body's wants has the effect of 
"founder," and causes inflammation, fever, heat, 
headache, rheumatism ; and to eat butter, lard, fats, 
greasy pork, sugar, molasses, and all such stuff, and 
salt, white flour, and the like, fills the system full 
of corruption. Then it is necessary to have small- 
pox to rid the system of this pernicious stuff. So 
the Creator sent a remedy in the smallpox to cast 
off this stuff. 

How can a man be healthy with all of a gallon or 
two of this rotten matter in him? There is plenty 
of material for every disease to work on, some sub- 
stance in every form of it to feed it and give it 
strength. Remove the substance or substances, and 
then the patient gets well, if he or she uses the right 
kind of food. Now this is what I can do. I can 
remove all the unwholesome material or materials 
out of the system without a drug. I condemn all 
forms of drugs and poisons and their kind. (See 
remedies or means for removing all the injurious 
materials out of the body just as the smallpox does. ) 
That removal cures all manner of diseases, and I 
can do the same by removing the corrupt matter in 
the same way. 

Smallpox cures all diseases of all kinds. See 
how much rotten corruption is thrown out of a man 
who eats a great deal of fats and oils, butter, sugar, 
salt, white flour, and, I will say, drinks whisky. See 
how little is thrown out if he goes twenty or thirty 
days without fats or greasy food. He may eat 
brown bread and dried stewed peaches and drink 
water for twenty days, and he will be clear of cor- 
rupt matter. So I lind consumption, catarrh of the 



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head, sore eyes, sore ears, scrofula, rheumatism, 
sore limbs, running sores, and all such diseases, pro- 
duced by this decayed matter. Fever is heat, and 
heat is produced by fats and oils alone. An excess 
of these produces an excess of heat, and this is 
fever. 

There is not oue atom of material moved in man 
except by water, and there is not an atom of material 
moved out except by water. Water does the whole 
work for man, trees, plants, vegetables, every living 
thing on the earth, beast, fowl, insect, creeping 
thing. So all corrupt matter is moved out with 
water. Water is doin^ more work than everv other 
power to purify and cure on the earth. So medicine 
is a perfect farce — a humbug that kills instead of 
curing. Whisky and medicine will kill well men. 

Why do people have smallpox? There are good 
reasons for it. They violate all the natural laws, 
eat all the filth they can make, drink all the filth 
they can in the form of liquors, beer, wine of all 
kinds, soda water, mineral waters, and many other 
slops, and thus fill the system full of corrupt mat- 
ter. Then it is necessary to put a check to it, and 
smallpox is a restraining power. Now see how soon 
doctors tell people to quit eating grease, fats, salt, 
sugar and molasses, when smallpox breaks out. 
''Diet," they say now. If such stuff will make 
filth and corruption for smallpox to cast out, why 
not make it for other diseases? And if it will make 
it for smallpox, it makes the same material all the 
time, disease or no disease, and must be causing 
trouble. Smallpox leaves the system clean and 
clear if one gets well, as I have learned from talks 
I have had with several people who have had small- 
pox. It washes out all the filth and corruption. There 
is nothing without a cause. So there is a cause for 
smallpox, and a big one, too. See how much cor- 
ruption it brings out. It throws out of a man per- 
haps all the way from eight to twenty pounds. Is 



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this not awful? No wonder the Creator says "Halt 
now !" See how easy it is to get rid of this danger- 
ous matter just by dieting for thirty days. It leaves 
the system clear and clean. Where is the malaria? 
In the air, taken wings and flown, and no poison 
used, either. Stop, doctors, and think of your 
blunder, folly and mistake ! 

Cure for Smallpox. — Smallpox can be treated 
in two ways. One is to place the patient in a bath 
of hot water, as hot as he can stand it ; keep it hot 
for four or Ave hours, just as the pits begin to show. 
Then take canton flannel, make two pieces four plies 
thick, large enough to cover the face fully, cut a 
hole for the nose, wet them in hot waiter as hot as 
you can bear, wring them out, place one on the face 
and change them every live minutes for three or four 
hours, and no pits will form. Another way is to 
take sweet oil, or cocoanut oil or cotton seed oil, as 
either will do, one pint, and one ounce of cayenne 
pepper, pulverized; mix them together; rub the 
whole body, limbs and all ; wet a cloth with the oil 
and pepper, place it over the face, and all the cor- 
rupt matter will ooze out through the skin and leave 
no mark ; wash it off the next dav. 



Consumption 



I can easily understand and explain the cause of 
consumption to any intelligent reader or hearer. 
It was in Muncie, Indiana, that I made my start in 
the discovery that smallpox cured consumption. 
Then to find what the material was that smallpox 
cast out of the body was the next thing in order — 
that is, to And what rotted the lunors. I found that 



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out fully. To give it so you can understand it, 
reader, I will ask, did you ever have a "bad cold," 
so called, and do you remember that first you sneezed, 
then hot material began to flow from your nose, and 
then, in a few hours, it was sore, and all the skin 
was rotted off : and do you remember how hot it 
was? And you remember how your lungs and head 
filled up at the same time? Now, if that material 
coming to the nose will make the nose sore, and rot 
the skin off, it will rot the lungs ; and that is what 
rots the lungs, and causes them to become sore, as 
I have established. I can take a well man and pro- 
duce consumption in thirty days, or less. For 
instance, take a man on a frosty night, strip him 
nude, and in ten minutes, or less, he is sneezing, and 
the hot material begins to run out of his nose, and 
in twenty or thirty minutes his nose is sore and hot 
with fever. Now, his lungs and head are full of 
such material, and his whole system is full, and he 
will have pains all over him. for all parts are rotting, 
the lungs commencing it. Repeat this operation, or 
take the man out every night, strip him naked for 
ten or twenty minutes for thirty days, and you would 
have a case of consumption in full, if the man would 
eat greasv and unwholesome food, as people com- 
monly do. 

How have I caused consumption? By applying 
cold to the skin, closing the holes or pores of the 
skin, and driving the blood back to the center. The 
water or blood carries the waste of the body back 
with it to try to dispose of it, and it rots the nose, 
head, lungs, kidneys, liver, heart and flesh. Con- 
sumption mostly goes to the lungs and destroys 
them much the fastest, and when once the lungs be- 
gin to rot, they become inflamed, the cells are en- 
larged, and the diseased material flows there from 
all parts of the body, and masses of material are cast 
off in this direction. I have had some experience, 
as I was given up to die with consumption in 1873. 



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I couched for eighteen months and had hemorrhage 
for four months. My left side or breast sank down 
one and a half inches lower than my right side ; my 
weight fell to 120 pounds, while my common 
weight is 165 to 175 pounds. I know I coughed up 
ten gallons of corrupt matter in six months, when I 
was at the worst. This material had to come from 
other sources than my lungs, as they were not large 
enough to make it or hold it. If you try, you will 
see how soon your lungs will fill full of corruption 
when you have taken a cold, so called. They will 
fill full in a short time, and the head, too. You 
can't get rid of a cold until you cast off a lot of cor- 
ruption. A great lot will come from the lungs and 
head. Now does it look reasonable that a little 
drug can remove this diseased mass? No, I say it 
is folly. Did you ever get rid of a cold until this 
material was cast off? No, you never did. 

If, to apply cold to the outer extremities will 
produce the disease or the corrupt matter made out 
of carbon, or grease and carbon, why not send it 
back the other way by putting ice inside, and heat 
and moisture outside ?— reverse the operation, run it 
back to where it came from. As the lungs and 
center are too hot, the ice inside will cool them, and 
all the internal organs, too, and the water will 
moisten the hardened corrupt matter. If heat and 
moisture are applied to the outer extremities, that 
will open the holes or pores of the skin ; and he:it 
attracts the water or blood, and the water in the 
blood will carry off millions of rotten molecules and 
cast them out to the surface, ready to be taken off 
with a bath. Millions of molecules or atoms pass 
off in the air, such as you smell. How easy it is to 
cure consumption if you remove the cause ; and 
filth and corruption are the cause. As soon as the 
cause is removed, the blood rebuilds and heals the 
system. There is no other process of healing but 
the action of the blood. See how a bone is knit 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 11 

together ; and where arteries have been cut in two, 
and each end tied, a pipe is formed round to each 
end and the artery is connected again. See the 
work of water, as water is the principal part of the 
blood, and carries all material all over the body. 

To cure consumption, the patient has to quit eat- 
ing grease, fat, sugar, molasses, white flour in all 
forms, and all the products made out of all such 
stuff. Some say "What will I eat?" I say a hun- 
dred things — grains, vegetables, fruits, lean beef, 
game, eggs, etc. 

The condition of the lungs loaded with this corrupt 
mass is very like this : Take two potatoes, one rot- 
ten, one sound, cut them in two ; take half of the 
rotten one, tit it to half of the sound one, and place 
them in a warm room where the temperature is near 
the heat of blood, and see how quickly the sound one 
rots. Keep the other half of the sound one in the 
same room and notice the difference. See how lonor 
it keeps good. See how scrofula commences. First 
a red spot, then yellow water or corruption is seen, 
the skin begins to rot or deca} 7 , and soon there is a 
cavity or hole in the flesh. Now, whatever will rot 
the skin or flesh of the hand, arm or body, will rot 
the lungs, and much faster, as the lungs are much 
more delicate. Then, again, notice when you feel 
first a cold coming on. Hot water runs from the 
nose. It is corruption, or rotten stuff. In two or 
three hours or so, the nose is sore, all the skin is off, 
the sore raw like a piece of raw flesh, and you feel 
at the same time, or later, the lungs filling up and 
the same kind of material is being carried to them. 
In a short time the lungs are sore, the skin all rotted 
off, and if this operation continues for twenty or 
thirty days, the person has consumption. As I have 
before said, if the person keeps eating fats, grease, 
and the like, the corruption keeps flowing or is car- 
ried to the lungs, head, and other parts. Catarrh of 
the head is consuming, or in other words, is consump- 



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tion caused by corruption. This is caused by letting 
the skin become dead and dry. With the pores 
closed, the skin is like an old piece of dry, hard 
leather, and eating grease or fats in any form except 
natural growth, causes it. Scrofula is onlv rotten 
matter escaping out of the system, and wherever 
that material escapes it will make that part sore and 
raw, whether it be the lungs, liver, kidneys, throat, 
head, bowels, rectum, colon, stomach, body, limbs, 
or eyes ; wherever this material is carried by the blood, 
it makes a sore, except it be cast off through the 
pores of the skin, the natural way. See how many 
people are afflicted with consumption, scrofula, 
catarrh of the head and sore throat. 

Concentrated food, such as butter, lard, sugar, 
white flour in bread, cakes, pies, and many other 
forms, dissolves and passes off into the circula- 
tion of the blood, leaving no waste for the bowels. 
It takes so long for enough of material to accumulate 
in this way, that the moisture is all absorbed by the 
rectum, leaving the residue to become hard and dry. 
Then the passage from the rectum is hard and dry, 
and painful, causing blood to flow (producing piles. ) 
Now, every thing that was made by the Creator was 
made for a purpose, so the bran of wheat was made 
for a purpose. As I have had plenty of experience, 
I can solve the problem of the old greasy way of 
feeding and making heat. I was at one time always 
full of fever and heat, was costive, and would go 
four to six days without a passage, and when I had 
one it required twenty to thirty minutes, with severe 
pains, at the same time passing blood, and piles fol- 
lowed. Now, with the Graham flour, the whole 
grain of wheat ground and made into bread or mush, 
I am free from all costiveness, pain, piles and blood 
passages. My passages are free and easy and once 
or twice a day, with no sign of piles. 

Piles are produced by two causes, inflammation 
from the grease, sugar, pastry, and white flour eaten 



CUKE WITHOUT DRUGS. 13 

in different forms, and from friction from the hard, 
dry passages. Lying in the rectum so long and be- 
coming dry and hard, they act like a rough tile, and 
tear the fine, soft membranes of the rectum, and 
this causes inflammation of the parts, producing 
swelling or enlargement ; so the next passage is worse 
than the first and the third worse still, and every 
time it grows worse and worse until you have to call 
in a doctor. The remedy is easy. I suffered for 
years and never got a bit of relief from doctors, but 
got it in an easy way. Never take a drug unless 
vou want to die. What makes a well man sick Avill 
kill a sick man, for the sick man is half dead and 
the drug will kill the other half — take my word for it. 
To enforce the views I have advanced in regard to 
consumption, I will add the following: One man 
who had consumption says that in one year he knows 
he coughed up and spit out one-half a barrel of rotten 
matter. This had to come from other sources than 
merely the decay of the lungs. I can safely say in 
such cases, that about all the waste or broken-down 
tissue is carried to the lungs and disposed of there, 
decaying the lungs in the process. To illustrate 
this decaying operation, I call your attention to where 
you fracture or break the skin on the hand or foot 
or body. Many times yellow matter will ooze out, 
decaying the skin or flesh until it makes a hole or 
cavity. In scrofula first there is a red spot, then 
yellow matter, and the skin and flesh decays, or is 
melted, leaving a cavity. In cancers this matter 
flows there and rots the skin and flesh in the same 
way, only more rapidly. I will give $1,000 to any 
one to show me cancer roots that eat flesh. The 
fact is, the human structure is full of decayed mat- 
ter and it oozes out and rots the skin and flesh. 
Look at running sores how the flesh is rotted. This 
holds good in many diseases, and is the entire cause 
of consumption. Stop the cause and then the blood 
will heal the wound, as all the healing is done bv the 



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blood. (See the "True Art of Healing," and see 
"Smallpox," in Nos. one and two, that destroy all 
the old hobbies of parasites, malaria and poison.) 

Rotten Matter. — Where does it come from ; 
what is it ; what is it made of ; is it made out of 
nothing ; does it just happen to be? "No," I answer 
to all these suggestions. There is nothing without 
a cause ; nothing without a substance or substances. 
If the smallpox did not cast off vast amounts of 
decayed matter, and leave the body clean and clear 
of all such stuff, then the case might be turned 
against me ; but here I nail the doctors fast. Small- 
pox cures any and all diseases. Where one has 
smallpox and gets well of it, they are well at the 
same time of any disease or diseases, no matter how 
many there may be or what they were. Once cured of 
smallpox no trace or symptom or indication of any 
/)ther disease can be discovered at that time or for 
several weeks, and many times never. Don't under- 
stand me to say the person would not have the same 
disease any more ; I do not say that, as what caused 
it first will cause it again. Whenever one fills up 
with the unwholesome food I have mentioned and 
condemned, look out, for something will develop 
itself, some disease will show itself somewhere. 
You can not violate all natural laws without suffering 
for it ; something will overtake you. The Creator 
provided plenty for all your needs without changing 
one thing from its natural growth. There are a hun- 
dred things to eat. But still you can be easily 
cured by my process, if you eat all the preparations 
of man. (See Cures for Diseases.) 

Cure for Consumption. — The pores of the skin 
are closed ; put cayenne pepper, the fourth of an 
ounce, in a bath ; have water, not hot, but just 
pleasant : bathe twenty minutes in a warm room ; 
warm a sheet and rub the patient dry ; take the 
same preparation of oil and cayenne pepper, as 
named in cure of smallpox, rub the whole human 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 15 

structure once each day until it is warm or hot, 
and the hotter the better ; wash every other day 
with water and a little soap ; do not use hot water, 
but heated only till it is pleasant ; rub the skin hard, 
make it red, and open the pores. If you can't 
get oil and pepper, take one quart of vinegar 
and half a teacup of ground mustard ; boil them ten 
minutes ; rub the whole body, from the soles of the 
feet to the head, with the mixture, once a day for 
ten or fifteen days ; keep warm ; eat perfect food — 
lean beef, grain, Graham bread, oatmeal bread, or 
fruits — not sour fruits — and watery vegetables, and 
eaten raw is best, as they contain all the elements 
for food ; keep feet dry and warm, only when 
bathing. (See Perfect Food.) 



Broken-Down Tissue. 



Broken-down tissue is material that has been used 
in the construction of the human system, and has 
to be moved to make a place for new material from 
what you eat. What you eat is to rebuild or replace 
the material after it has remained so many days in 
the construction of flesh, bone, brain, and all the 
organs. When this broken-down tissue or material 
is moved by the blood, or water, it should be car- 
ried out through the skin, lungs and urine. This 
process is going on every minute, in every part of the 
body, through seven millions of pores or holes, from 
the flesh, lungs, liver, kidneys, and all parts. If this 
material is retained in the body it must cause great 
trouble. Many people, not being familiar with this 
fact, neglect their bodies for weeks, or months, or 
years, and some for a life-time, and die in their filth. 



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Many never bathe, and the pores, or holes, in the 
skin become closed up. This material is retained 
in the system, and it putrifies and rots the flesh. 
To explain this so the unscientific reader can see it 
and feel it sensibly, say, take a man in the month 
of October, when it is frosty of nights, take him 
out of doors, strip him nnde, set him down, let the 
cold air come in contact with his skin, and in a few 
minutes he is sneezing, and in one or two hours 
thereafter his nose is sore, the lining skin is melted 
off or decayed, and very hot, and at the same time 
he is fevered all over. Let him remain out of doors 
thirty-five or forty minutes, and his lungs and head 
become full of broken-down tissue, and very sore, 
and full of heat, This is fuel that is carried back 
by the blood, or water, for water does ail the work 
internally in the human structure in moving all the 
atoms, particles, or molecules. 

When this broken-down tissue is retained in the 
body it must cause trouble. In typhoid fever it 
commences with a bad cold, the pores or holes of 
the skin are closed, and all the waste or broken- 
down tissue is carried back into the svstem, making 
the nose sore, filling the lungs full, making the 
lungs sore and hot, filling the head full, making the 
head ache, inflaming the brain, making it sore and 
hot, (see Insanity) filling the flesh full of broken- 
down tissue, and all the organs, making all sore and 
full of pain and fever-heat. Fever is common heat 
made by a combination such substances, and with- 
out such substance or substances there would be 
no heat, and without them there would be no decay 
of flesh, as the sound flesh would not decay without 
a cause. When this broken-down tissue or rotten 
matter settles in any part, it rots, decays or melts 
the skin, membranes, and flesh freely. 

By applying cold air to the skin it closes the pores 
or holes of the skin about the same way as painting a 
piece of muslin when water will not pass through it* 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 17 

So when the cold air comes in contact with the skin 
it contracts and the pores or holes close, and the 
broken-down tissue can't get through the skin : 
the blood is going to move it somewhere, and it 
floats, carries, or takes it back to all parts of the 
body and organs, tilling them up daily, until some 
acute or chronic disease will develop itself and show 
up in full. It may be a fever of some type, or chills 
and fever, or it may be a chronic disease, for all 
such commence in this way. Where there is so 
much grease, fats, sugar and molasses used, broken- 
down tissue and rotten matter spread all through 
the system. The broken-down tissue can be classed 
as rotten matter, but corruption is made in the sys- 
tem by eating too much fats, grease and the like, for 
in contagion or contagious diseases there is cast out 
of the body large quantities of rotten matter, as in 
smajlpox, yellow fever, and many other diseases. 

Broken-down tissue retained in the body will 
cause cancer, sore-eyes, piles, kidney affections, 
consumption, rheumatism, dropsy, and all such dis- 
eases. See description of each disease, study its 
causes, and by so doing you can form a definite con- 
clusion as to what it takes to remove the broken- 
down tissue and corruption out of the body. First 
in the process, the skin must be made soft or moist 
and hot, — the hotter the better — and to move all 
material out of the body that causes trouble, you 
must take into the system a bountiful supply of 
water, as w r ater moves every atom of material that 
is moved in the human structure. (See Cures for 
All Diseases.) 

Kotten matter and broken-down tissue I now place 
in two different classes. One is made from the 
excess of fats, butter, grease of all kinds, sugar, 
molasses, candies, and all such stuff. They become 
putrified in the system, and when rotting become a 
source of disease, and are the essence of all conta- 
gious diseases, such as smallpox, yellow fever, 
c 



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measles, chicken-pox, mumps, whooping-cough, 
cholera, and many of the chronic diseases. (See 
Smallpox.) This, I class as rotten or putrified mat- 
ter. Every grain of all the material named above 
must become putrified and rot in the system, and it 
must cause pain. 

Broken-down tissue is retained in the body in two 
or three ways. One is the neglect of bathing, by 
which way dirt and glue form on the skin and close 
the pores or holes of the skin, and there are seven 
millions of these. Another way of retaining this 
broken-down tissue is to bring or let cold air come 
in contact with the skin and closes the pores. This 
fastens the doors, it may be said, on the broken-down 
tissue in the system and keeps it there. 

How is it that a drug can move out of the body 
any broken-down tissue, or build up any new tissue? 
It is easy to see the fallacy of the pretensions of a 
drug or "blood-purifier." As the blood is mostly 
water, and the blood moves all substances through 
the body, and carries all substances out of the body 
that go through the skin, or urine, or any excrement, 
what is it that builds up tissue? Perfect food, the 
Creator's naturally proportioned weight, will build 
up the tissue of the body, with the aid of water, the 
great medium by which all substances are moved all 
through the body. I take the ground that not one 
atom or molecule of material is moved out of the 
body through the skin or urine except by water. 
Blood is water with the atoms or molecules of food 
floating in it the same as when you put a spoonful 
of sugar in a glass of warm water, or as the lime in 
hard water. To look at the water you can't see it, 
but boil the water and you see the lime left in the 
tea-kettle. Take sugar-water from a tree : You 
can't see the sweet particles in the water, but boil 
it and you get the susrar, as I have done in boiling 
man}^ a barrel, and helping to make many a pound 
of suirar. Now, could you get the sugar out of the 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 19 

tree without the water brought it out? No ! It is 
the water brings it out. 

So with water in the human system — it carries all 
the broken-down tissue out of the body, or all 
except what the lungs and urine throw off. When 
the skin is all right, kept healthy, warm and soft, 
and the pores open, this broken-down tissue is cast 
off through the skin and urine, but mostly through 
the skin. Let the skin get dead, the pores closed 
all of a sudden by a cold current of air stop- 
ping the flow of this broken-down tissue, then the 
water or blood carries it back to the lungs, head, 
kidneys, bones and muscles, and then you say you 
have a cold. It is not so ; it is a fever. The tissue 
causes combustion, heat, fever, hot inside with cold 
feet and hands. The lun^s are full of decaving 
matter, head, body, bones, flesh and all the organs. 
You observe the nose when the cold first sets in. 
See how the hot water will run out ; it is rotten 
matter and takes the skin off. See how sore the 
nose gets in four or six hours ; it is hot, and burns, 
and smarts. Whatever will make your nose sore 
will make your lungs, kidneys, bones and flesh sore, 
and what will make your nose hot will make your 
lungs and all other parts hot. 

Let this run a few days and the outer extremities 
become cold, the pores closed, and all the broken- 
down tissue remains in the body and decays, causing 
combustion or heat. You will have fever of some 
kind, or rheumatism, consumption, or some kind of 
disease. Typhoid fever is brought on in this way, as 
well as lung fever. When one is full of decayed 
matter like that which smallpox casts out of the 
body, let the skin get dead or cold and the pores 
closed, and it won't take long for some disease to show 
itself. It is impossible for anything to cleanse the 
system but water and air. There are no other purifiers 
than these. Air enters the circulation and contains 
many of the elements of " space," oxygen, hydrogen, 



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carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, etc. He who gives 
drugs to a sick man that would make a well man 
sick, must be very ignorant of the needs of the body. 

I recollect that in my boyhood days doctors would 
not allow my father to drink water, for fear it would 
kill him, when he had a high fever. If a tire would 
break out and some foolish people would crowd 
around and not allow water to be used, would not 
sensible people think it terrible? But it would not 
be half so terrible as it was for doctors to keep water 
away from patients who were burning up with fever. 
Now, fever is only heat caused by combustion of 
materials in the body, and water is the thing to ex- 
tinguish heat with and carry all the combustible or 
heating substances out. 

When tissue is broken down it is not disposed of 
or gotten out of the body at once. Then it 
commences to putrify or rot, and the blood or water 
carries it back to all parts of the body, as I have 
before remarked. This broken-down tissue rots 
sound tissue. To demonstrate this take a rotten 
potato or apple and a sound one ; cut them in two ; 
take half of the sound one and half of the rotten 
one, and place them together, the cut parts fitting 
them close ; place them in a warm room of the same 
temperature as the blood, and see how quick the 
sound one rots. Keep the other sound half in the 
same room, so it don't touch the rotten one, and see 
how long it will keep sound. When a cold com- 
mences, as I have said, see how the hot water runs 
from your nose ; see how soon it is sore ; see how 
soon the lining skin rots off. What rots the skin in 
the nose will rot the lungs, head, kidneys, liver, flesh 
and bones. This is what causes pain. 

The corruption settles all over the body in typhoid 
fever, organs and all ; in lung fever the greatest 
part goes to the lungs ; in rheumatism to the bones 
and muscles ; and in all manner of chronic diseases 
it settles in different parts. (See Smallpox to deter- 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 21 

mine the amount there is in the body more than 
there ought to be.) When the pores are closed this 
accumulates in large quantities, more than smallpox 
would cast off. Imagine how fast a man or a 
woman rots down with this mass of broken-down 
tissue. It rots them down immediately in fevers ; 
it rots the lungs in consumption ; in piles it rots the 
rectum ; in sore-throat it rots the throat ; in kidney 
affection it rots the kidneys ; in fact, in all manner 
of diseases it is rotten matter that is at work. (See 
Smallpox for description to show it in full.) 

To get this decaying matter out of the system or 
body is easy if the process be understood. I first 
learned much I know at Memphis, Tenn., and Vicks- 
burg, Miss., in 1878, by investigating the way yel- 
low fever was cured. It was cured by getting rid of 
the decayed matter of the body. That was done in 
many ways, but all amounted to about the same 
thing, that is, to open the pores, keep the outer 
extremities very hot and soft, give ice in large quan- 
tities — eighteen or twenty glassfuls in one and one- 
half to two hours — or hot tea in large quantities, 
and sweat quickly and freely, make it pour out ; and 
when patients were sweating the rotten matter came 
out in large quantities, as in every case the attendants 
testify. The smell was so bad that it was like there 
was a dead animal in the room, half decaying. 
They had to open doors and windows to let this 
corruption out. 

I investigated two weeks in Memphis, and many 
times in Vicksburga week at a time. Capt. Guning, 
at Vicksburg, cured more people there of yellow 
fever than any other man I have known ever since 
1870. I am acquainted with him and his family, and 
I have heard him talk and tell how he cured patients 
in a number of cases, and how he learned how to 
treat yellow fever. It was accidental. He hab 
yellow fever a number of years before, and was 
verv bad, and the doctors would not let him have 



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water. He was likely to die, and he was burning 
up, and he said, too, he would be willing to die if 
he could s:et all the water he could drink. 

At breakfast all the white people went out to 
breakfast. A mulatto girl brought in a pitcher of 
water and set it on a chair and went out. Capt. 
Guning crawled out of his bed to the chair, drank 
about half of the water, laid down on the floor, and 
remained there three or four minutes, crawled up 
and drank until the pitcher slipped and rolled off 
the chair and broke. The noise caused the white 
folks to come running in. They picked him up, and 
put him in bed, frightened and trembling with ter- 
ror, (water was such a terrible thing to kill people) 
watched over him, expecting every minute to see him 
breathe his last. But water was not such a kill- 
all as they feared. He says he felt easier in ten 
minutes, and in ten or fifteen minutes he felt a 
stinging sensation in his fingers and toes like they 
had been "asleep," only the sensation was much 
stronger, and it kept growing greater like a thous- 
and needles piercing his fingers and toes. That was 
the blood starting to flow, and he says he com- 
menced to get hotter and hotter ; his limbs burned 
with heat ; then he began to sweat and sweat freely ; 
he said it poured off of him for about one hour, and 
the smell in the room was like there was a dead car- 
cass there. Now think of the millions of molecules 
or atoms that water moved out of that body. He 
testifies to the same in all his statements. He 
recovered immediately, and cured others that same 
year. In his doctoring he found that when the 
patients sweated the room was full of material sick- 
ening to the sense of smell ; that is, rotten matter. 

Now, in all his practice he never gave one grain 
of drugs or medicine, unless it was to use some herb 
to cause an action of the bowels, and not then if it 
could be done with a syringe and hot water. Now, 
see the broken-down tissue or rotten matter. When 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 23 

you can smell anything, the molecules or atoms float 
in the air or open space. The sense of smell is like 
the sense of taste, and when there are many mole- 
cules or atoms in the air offensive to smell, you feel 
the sensation quickly. Some things affect the sense 
so much as to cause people to vomit and produce a 
sense of sickness. This is similar to the broken-down 
tissue in the body. It makes people sick in divers 
ways. 

Now for a reform. Why not live for health? 
If you keep the skin healthy, the pores open, eat 
perfect, wholesome food, sleep eight or ten hours at 
the right time of the night, say from eight or nine 
o'clock until five or six o'clock in the morning ; dress 
loose and warm ; keep the feet warm ; have clothes 
with all the weight on the shoulders, except arms 
and stockings, and they ought to be made fast to the 
clothing; take plenty of exercise in the open air; 
have healthy houses, plenty of sunlight in every room, 
plenty of pure air, open fire-places, and you will in- 
fallibly keep well. 

Thousands of people are djnng for want of these 
things. He who can not quit the fashions of heathens 
and barbarians, and their habits and customs, let him 
drive on and commit suicide, the sooner the better. 
But halt ! reasonable and rational man, and give this 
one thought. I have tried every way. I have gone 
through the fire for thirty-fire years, and in the last 
fifteen years I have learned a lesson, and now I feel 
grateful for it. I can live easy and I can live hard, 
but I prefer the easy way. 

" How is that? " says one. I will tell you. I can 
live on one-half the expense now since I quit using 
lard, butter, sugar, molasses, tobacco, cigars, beer, 
etc. " How can you stand it to work? " Come and 
see my neighbors, ask them and they will tell you, 
"If you keep up with that fellow he will keep you 
hot." " How so? " " Why he never takes time to 
drink a o;lass of water. He £oes manv times from 



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morning till noon without a drink, and there is where 
he gets you all. He sweats but very little (like pow- 
erful animals), and never tires." Now, I can tell 
the reason why I can go without water. I don't eat 
salt, grease, sugar or molasses to burn me up, and I 
don't need water. Before I quit all this I drank 
water in large quantities, and the cold water stopped 
digestion, and that weakened me. As soon as diges- 
tion stops, the material that feeds the muscles stops 
flowing, the broken-down tissue goes back and the 
muscles grow weak. .That is one reason why I can 
keep them red-hot ; and another reason is, my food is 
for the body and theirs is for the taste. See the 
horse ; he eats perfect food. You do not feed him, 
or any other animal, grease. Now, look at a fat hog ; 
take him out on a race-track, run him, and see if it 
does n't make him red-hot, the same as your grease- 
eating men. Take a deer that lives on nature's sim- 
plest food. See how he can run, and leap twenty-five 
or thirty feet at one leap. I have seen many a one 
in my boyhood days in Indiana, and plenty of them 
in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and 
Texas, and many other States, and know what they 
can do. 

There are plenty of ways for people to kill them- 
selves. They eat large quantities of fats, grease, 
salt, sugar, molasses, and many other kinds of stuff 
that is not food. They have a large quantity of 
broken-down tissue in their bodies. I feel that there 
is a large quantity of what people eat that is never 
made into tissue, but only rots or putrifies in the 
blood. For one who eats grossly of the above named 
stuff, and takes smallpox, there is a large quantity 
of decayed matter cast out of the body ; and one 
who diets himself or herself will not have smallpox, 
or have it lightly. Say they diet themselves thirty 
days, and they will not have it at all. I can take a 
person and pit them, or extract all the material in 
six or eight hours, so smallpox or yellow fever would 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS, 25 

not hurt them, if they only abstain from gross living 
thereafter. 

It has been discovered that a man or woman can 
diet themselves for yellow fever the same as for 
smallpox. One man at Memphis, Tenn., in 1878, 
a pilot of the steamer "Kate Hooper," told me 
he dieted himself twelve days on fruit and grain, 
such as brown-bread, oat-meal, and the like, and 
when he took the yellow fever it did not hurt him. 
He never even went to bed with it. His family 
dieted themselves, and not one of them had yellow 
fever, although he was with them every day when 
he had it. Two other families dieted themselves, 
and not one of them had yellow fever that same 
year, (in 1878), in Memphis, Tenn. The stuff yel- 
low fever casts off the system is of the same kind as 
that which smallpox casts out ; rotten matter, formed 
grease, fats, salt, sugar, molasses, liquor, beer, and 
all the broken-down tissue that has accumulated 
in the body by not keeping the skin clean and healthy, 
and the pores open by exercise, breathing pure air, 
living in the sunshine instead of dark houses, etc. I 
could write a whole volume on this subject, but 
what I have said will make the subject plain to all 
intelligent readers. 



Bad Cold, 



A cold may commence from several causes. One 
is when cold air or a current of air comes in contact 
with the skin and closes the pores or holes of the 
skin. As there are seven millions of these, when 
any part of them becomes closed, the broken-down 
tissue is carried back to the central parts and organs 



26 THE HOME GUIDE. 

of the body. Another way is when the stomach, liver, 
and lungs become inflamed, and the blood is con- 
tracted or called to aid and assist these organs. 
Then the pores close. As the limbs get cold, pores 
close up and the broken-down tissue is carried back 
to the head, lungs, and all parts of the human 
structure. 

Take a man out of doors in March, when the 
weather is cool and the nights frosty ; strip him, set 
him down and let him sit for thirty or forty minutes 
with cold air coming in contact with the skin. This 
cold air closes the pores of the skin about as com- 
pletely as you close the little openings in a piece 
of muslin by painting it. Water will not run through 
it, but you know how water will run through " raw " 
muslin. It is full of holes, but the paint stops up 
all of them. So does the cold air close the pores of 
the skin. If it is in a healthy condition and pores 
open, there would be two or three pounds of broken- 
down tissue cast off daily. Stop this and you soon 
have a cold, and in eight or ten days fever is liable 
to show itself. For in all this time the broken- 
down tissue is accumulating. Fevers of all kinds 
are brought on in this way. Consumption is com- 
menced in this way. Almost all diseases commence 
with a cold, and a cold is caused by rotten matter 
and broken-down tissue kept in the body by closing 
the pores of the skin. Broken-down tissue thus re- 
tained will produce disease of some kind, as it rots. 
That rotten matter will rot sound tissue wherever it 
goes, lodges or settles. To cure diseases it becomes 
necessary to open the pores and keep up a free cir- 
culation of the blood. (See Cure for Diseases and 
Preventives of All Manner of Diseases.) 

How People Take Cold. — Most diseases, as 
already remarked, commence with a severe cold. 
Fevers and chronic diseases begin the same way. 
People eat food with so much fuel in it that it irritates 
the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, kidneys, and all the 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 27 

organs. To fill the stomach full of food draws the 
blood to it. leaving the flesh of the limbs to get 
cold. The skin on the limbs grows cold, the pores 
close, and then the matter is carried back to the 
internal organs, the bones, and all over the body. 
This material begins to rot as soon as it starts back 
through the body. It inflames the lungs and head, 
makes the bones and flesh ache. Now turn your 
attention to the nose. First comes a sneeze, next is 
hot water — a hot water with rotten matter. Soon 
the nose gets sore ; the matter melts all the inside 
skin off, leaving it raw and the flesh decaying. 
Whatever will make your nose sore, or melt all 
the inside skin off, will melt the skin off of the 
lungs, and make them sore, and cause consumption. 

What will melt the skin off the nose and lungs 
will melt the skin off the throat, and make the 
throat sore ; and what will make all the organs sore 
will make the head sore, melt the membranes of the 
head, and cause catarrh. The same material goes 
to the rectum and causes piles, or to the bowels and 
causes flux, or to the stomach and causes dyspepsia. 
Sour stomach will cause dyspepsia and flux, and it 
is made by an excess of food that contains larsfe 
quantities of sugar or acid. 

The material that will melt the skin off the nose 
will settle in the flesh and bones and cause pain in 
the form of typhoid fever, lung fever, and all man- 
ner of fevers, rheumatism, dropsy, diabetes, neu- 
ralgia, and many other diseases. Almost all diseases 
are caused by a stoppage of the pores, which forces 
the rotten matter to settle somewhere where it does 
not belong. This causes the disease to show itself. 
(See Remedy for Diseases.) Anyone having been 
exposed to smallpox, yellow fever, measles, mumps, 
cholera, or any other contagious disease, can prepare 
themselves in ten or twelve hours so as to not fear 
any one of the number named. Sweat freely, so 
as to sweat out all the rotten material that smallpox 



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would cast off, and you may feel safe, if you diet 
yourself — eat grain, and fruit that has but little acid 
in it. 

To sweat freely, rub the body with cocoanut oil 
or olive oil or cotton-seed oil (the refined kind), with 
plenty of cayenne pepper, called "capsicum." Mix 
the oil and pepper ; to half a pint of oil use two 
ounces of pepper. All manner of diseases can be 
cured by a free application of the oil and pepper, 
sweating freely, and following a strict diet of perfect 
or wholesome food. You have to get rid of this 
rotten matter, and to sweat quickly and freely is the 
best, easiest and safest way. Relief can be had in 
six or eight hours. Go at it like you meant some- 
thing, and tear it all out at once. 

I could have recorded four or five hundred cases 
in all, of different diseases which have been cured 
outside of the medical profession, and in all the cures 
the processes amounted to the same thing. The 
patients took something that caused them to sweat 
freely. Some took ice, some cold water, some cold 
milk, some cold buttermilk, some snow, some were 
given hot tea in large quantities, from one and a half 
to two gallons ; some men drank from one to two 
gallons of cold water after they were given up to die. 
One boy drank two washpansf ul of rinsing water in 
which his mother had rinsed the clothes. While she 
was hanging out the clothes he crawled out of bed 
to the kitchen and drank the water. He had scarlet 
fever and sweated freely, and the room smelt like it 
had a dead and decaying animal in it. The boy 
seemed almost well in six or eight hours. He was 
weak, but gained rapidly thereafter. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 29 

Cures for Diseases. 



I have investigated many cases where the patient 
got something that sweated him or her freely, and 
relief was immediate in all manner of diseases, 
leaving a smell in the room like a dead carcass. 
Now, think of it ; the millions of rotten atoms of 
matter in the room, that came from the body of the 
patient. A few of them make a well person sick. 
What can drugs do in such cases as these? I have 
been cured four different times, of different diseases, 
without drugs or medicines, and every time 1 was very 
bad. For erysipelas my treatment was, immerse 
in hot water for four or five hours, the w 7 ater kept 
very hot, just so I could stand it. For flux, ten 
glassfuls of pulverized ice. For consumption, 
catarrh of the head, kidney affections, pleurisy and 
dyspesia, free baths with mustard in them, careful 
diet, and sweating freely. With typhoid fever, 
sweat freely, by taking hot w 7 ater and rubbing hard 
by two men ; cover the chest and stomach with a 
coffee-sack, four double, and wrung out of hot water, 
twice each dav, left on one hour, with two one-sal- 
Ion jugs filled with boiling water, one at the feet and 
one at the back. Fevers of all kinds may be treated 
in about the same way. Bathe with a tepid bath, 
in a warm room, warm a sheet and rub dry ; place 
jugs or bottles, filled with boiling water, in the bed 
before the patient is put in, and when the patient is 
rubbed dry, rub an ointment of cocoa-nut oil and 
cayenne pepper all over him, from head to foot; 
place him in bed, keep jugs or bottles of hot water 
as close to him as he can bear them ; give him ice — 
pulverized, in large quantities, as soon as ice can be 
had. and before bathing, is best. If you can't get 
ice, use hot tea made from a common herb of any 
kind, or use hot water, but the patient must drink 



30 THE HOME GUIDE. 

large quantities of one or the other, say a half pint 
every live or six minutes, until he drinks a gallon or 
more. Sweat him freely, keep him covered well, don't 
let cold air touch him ; keep him warm for quite a 
while ; next day wash him with tepid but not hot 
water, rub dry, put on clean clothes, and change the 
bed-clothes. This will cure fevers, ague, yellow 
jaundice, and dropsy, if applied two or three times ; 
scrofula, and all manner of diseases, if applied two 
to six times, with "perfect" food to eat, plenty 
of pure air to breathe, and a healthy house, with 
rooms on the south side, to let the sun shine in. 
Take up carpets, take down window-blinds, and 
live in the sunshine. Artificial habits and customs 
are the cause of many diseases, and more misery 
than happiness. If you have one inch of happiness, 
and two of misery, I think the misery outweighs the 
fun. One man says, to get drunk is one inch of 
fun, but it is two inches of misery to get sober. 
When you violate the Maker's laws you have to suf- 
fer for it. Sickness catches them all, rich and 
poor, in all classes, black and white. 



My Experience, 



L. H. KERSEY. 

I was raised on a farm. At the age of nine years 
I cut my right foot and was taken with erysipelas in it, 
with inflammation and swelling. Doctors and my 
parents tried everything known to medical science, 
but to no purpose. The inflammation continued, and 
turned black, and my leg, to the knee, swelled to 
the size of my body. I was unconscious for twenty- 
four hours. A man told my father to get dry beech 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 31 

leaves off the trees, as it was the first of April, take 
ten gallons of creek water, put it in a kettle and 
put in the beech leaves, boil them, and cool them 
just so I could bear the heat, and bathe the leg freely, 
then take a piece of quilt and put a lot of leaves on 
that, and wrap my leg with it, with the leaves next 
to leg. Father did as directed, and it gave me 
immediate relief. He followed the same directions 
for a few days, when he found the swelling was all 
gone. I recovered and got entirely well, though my 
mother died with it, as have many others since then. 

I will here give a statement of the case of Allen 
Coombes, of Lebanon, Boone county, Indiana. He 
cut his hand, and was taken with erysipelas in the 
wound. Doctors covered it with iodine, and made it 
worse by their poison. It commenced to swell, got as 
large as my thigh, and became very painful, as all 
the pores were closed and the arm was poisoned with 
iodine. He came to my store to consult me. I 
looked at the arm, and made sport of having iodine 
put on it. He asked me what I could do for it, and 
I told him I could cure it. He wanted to know how, 
and I told him I would not tell him unless he would 
say he would do what I directed. He promised that 
he would, and I had him to get a bucket that had 
contained "fine cut" tobacco, on account of its 
hight — so he could get his whole arm in it — and fill 
it with hot rain-water, as hot as he could bear it, 
and keep heating water, dipping it out as it cooled 
and pouring in hot water, so as to keep up the heat, 
and keep the arm in it tor three hours. At the end 
of that time the swelling was all gone ; his arm, wrist, 
hand and fingers were smaller than the other one, 
and he recovered without any more treatment. He 
says he has stopped felons since with a hot bath, 
bathing the felon three or four hours. 

Render ! A bath in hot water is good for all man- 
ner of swelled hands, feet, bruises, and many other 
injuries. Wheat bran and mustard poultices are a 



32 THE HOME GUIDE. 

wonderful relief and remedy for bruises, swellings, 
mumps, and to put over the lungs when soreness 
appears. Take one gallon of wheat bran, one tea- 
cupful of ground mustard, make a stiff mush of them, 
and put it in a cotton sack and place it on stomach, 
if it is paining you ; or over the lungs, if they are 
sore ; or on the back, if the back is sore ; or on any 
sore part of the feet, legs, arms, hands, or any part 
of the body ; or on the jaws in the case of mumps. 
It is good for erysipelas, and all pain, or heat and 
moisture ; lets out corruption, and that is the essence 
of disease, the cause of pain. Pain is produced 
by the decaying matter rotting the flesh, or lungs, or 
some of the organs of the body. 

In 1859 I lost my health, coughed all summer, and 
then went south to New Orleans with a man with a 
drove of eighty-two head of horses. When I left 
there I went to Texas, where they had almost nothing 
to eat but corn-bread with bran in it, mixed up with 
water, bitter coffee, and a little hominy. I thought 
I would starve the first two weeks, for I ate but 
little, and that was only what I actually needed. My 
stomach needed rest. After two weeks I could eat 
corn-bread, bran, and all, with a relish. The bran 
proved a great benefit to me, as it kept my bowels 
open, with free passages every day. When I came 
home to Indiana, on a large farm where we had plenty 
of everything, I soon failed in health. Then, when 
I would £0 where there was little to eat I would 
improve . Men usually eat about four times too much 
food. In 1862 I took the typhoid fever, and the 
doctors waited on me to no purpose for ten or twelve 
weeks. I got well, but I felt many times as though 
I was parched, for my skin was dry and hot. In 
1875 I took typhoid fever again and I would not 
take druo\s. I had a man to take me to a hvsfienic 
cure, and was treated there without a drug of any 
kind and was sitting up the seventh day. The treat- 
ment was to sponge me with warm water once a day, 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 33 

rub me hard until my skin was red, then place a jug 
of hot water to my feet, drink a pint of hot water, 
wet a three-ply cloth and cover my stomach and 
breast with it, and put a four-ply cloth, w T et with 
hot water, on my forehead and cover me with three 
comforts. I would sweat freely and go to sleep, and 
when I would wake up how good I would feel ! I 
said to myself, if people knew this they would not 
be humbugged with doctors any more. I improved 
every day, and the thirteenth day I went home. 
Now, mind you, the doctors said when I went there 
I was bound to die, because I would not take drugs ; 
but I have out-lived some of them. 

After this I had flux and had it bad. Mrs. 
Haugh, of Indianapolis, was in Lebanon, Ind. , and my 
wife sent for her to see me. She came, and sent 
my daughter for ice. When the ice was brought it 
was crushed and put in a tumbler and brought to 
me. I feared it, but she said, " Take it, it will help 
you." I took half a tumbler and waited a few min- 
utes, and I felt so relieved that I begged for more, 
and 1 swallowed four glassfuls of that crushed ice. 
My feet and hands grew w^arm, and in a short time I 
was hot outside. My feet and hands were hot and I 
began to sweat and sweated till everything about me 
was wet. My wife put three-ply of muslin under 
me and the sweat ran through all of that. I had 
been having great pain in my bowels and had passages 
every fifteen or eighteen minutes, and thirty minutes 
after taking the ice it all stopped ; there was no pain 
and I had no passage for eight hours, and then it 
was black and clotted blood. I got well. 

F. M. Kersey, my brother, at Lebanon, Ind., was 
taken with typhoid fever. First a cold, and then 
headache and backache, cold feet, "pains in the 
bones," he said, (I say in the flesh,) running six or 
seven days ; chills followed with fever. He was 
taken down bed-fast and laid three days, and sent 
for me. ] went and found his limbs cold, head hot, 

D 



34 THE HOME GUIDE. 

body hot, and in great misery in head, back and limbs. 
He asked me what he must do. I told him I could not 
give instructions unless he would comply with them. 
They were, first, t*hat he had to give me six or seven 
days ; and next, that he was not to send for a doctor 
until that time expired. He promised to give me the 
time and chance. I gave instructions which were : 
A mild emetic to'be taken — salt and water ; next was 
mustard and vinegar warmed, with which he was to 
be sponged all over, rubbed diy with a warm cloth, 
and next was ten or twelve glassfuls of crushed ice 
taken internally, with a jug of hot water placed at 
his feet to get the outer extremities hot with the in- 
side cool. Before, the outside was cold and the inside 
too hot ; I reversed that. I left and went to my busi- 
ness. Next morning I went back, went into the room 
and found him laughing. What a feeling came over 
me ! How proud I felt ! I sat down and in came 
his wife, and she be^an to talk and tell how all 
things went. "We got him put through, covered 
him up, and in a little while he was hot all over and 
kept getting hotter and hotter until he complained of 
burning. And then the sweat commenced to come 
out, and as soon as it flowed freely he felt easy. 
The sweat came so freely that T put a comfort under 
him," she said, "and the sweat wet the comfort 
through and through, and it had the worst smell I 
ever experienced." "How was his urine?" "As 
red as lye." "How were his clothes when you 
stripped him?" "As yellow as they could be." 
He was feeling so well that he could talk and laugh 
freely, and in a few days was running about recov- 
ered in full. 

Another case was that of Mrs. Holloway, eight 
miles north of Lebanon. I happened to be there, 
and she had lung fever ; cold limbs, high fever, head- 
ache, backache, dry cough, lungs very sore. Her 
limbs were so cold when I felt them that the cold 
chills would run over me. She had been bed-fast 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 35 

two days. I gave her eight glassfuls of ice, and in 
two hours her limbs were very hot and the sweat 
came out of her freely, and she felt easy right away. 
She slept, well that night, and the next morning she 
got up, came to the tire-place and would cough easily 
and spit up great chunks of corruption one after 
another. At breakfast she ate a fair meal, and recov- 
ered in a short time. She used ice for a cold after 
that always. 



Affidavits and Statements. 



I have procured these from various persons to 
show how diseases have been cured outside of the 
drug system, and in many instances where the suf- 
ferers were given up to die. They got water, or 
ice, or milk, or cider, or water-melon, or something 
similar, and got well. This carries out my princi- 
ple. Twelve or sixteen pounds of rotten matter, 
or broken-down tissue, had to be carried out of the 
body to effect a cure. See, what people testify to! 
When a patient sweats, the smell is like a rotten 
animal in the room. 



Affidavit of John Adair. 

11 My name is John Adair. Age 59. " 

Question. " Are you acquainted with L. H. Kersey?" 

Answer. "Yes, sir! I have known him twenty years." 

Q. " What is his general reputation as to morals and 

veracity ?" 

A. "It is good. [ don't think any man could be more 

truthful than he is." 



36 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Q. "Did he ever treat you when hurt, or crippled, and 
what was the result? " 

A. "Yes. I was crippled by a horse, so that I was suffer- 
ing very severe pain, and he cured me in about two hours." 

John Adair." 

Subscribed and sworn to before me, Chas. P. Kern, a notary 
public, in and for Boone county, Indiana, this 20th day of 
March, 1882. 

Witness my hand and notarial seal. 

Chas. P. Kern, Notary Public. 

Mr. John Adair's foot and leg were swollen, very 
badly inflamed and red, and he could not wear his 
boot. The remedy I had him to apply was, to bathe 
the foot and leg in hot water for two hours — water 
as hot as he could bear it, and I kept it hot all that 
time. It was laughable to hear him tell what he 
did next morning, when he waked up. He said he 
felt no pain, and he worked his foot backward and 
forward to see if there was any pain, and found 
none. Then, he said, he expected he would limp, 
when he got up, but he could not limp. There was 
no soreness, no swelling ; all right. He put on his 
boot, and came to my store, to work, as usual. I 
was " running" a large agricultural store at the 
time, and Mr. John Adair was clerking for me. At 
this time Mr. Adair is a first-class citizen, a moral, 
temperate man, of considerable means, married, with 
a fine family. 



Affidavit of F. M. Kersey. 

Question. " What is your name and age?" 
Answer. " My name is Francis M. Kersey, I live in Lebanon, 
Ind., and was formerly a farmer and merchant." 
Q. " How long have you known L. H. Kersey?" 
A. "I have known him for forty-one years." 
Q. "What is his moral standing in his county?" 
A. "It is as good as could be desired." 
Q. " Did you ever have typhoid fever?" 
A. "Yes, I did." 



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Q. ' ; What were the symptoms?" 

A. "I was taken with a bad cold, had night-sweats, cold 
feet and cold hands and limbs, pains in my back, head, and 
limbs generally, and high inward fever and a numb, dull feel- 
ing." 

Q. 4i How long had you this feeling before you were taken 
bed-fast?" 

A. " Six or eight days." 

Q. '• How many days were you bed-fast before you sent for 
L. H. Kersey?" 

A. " Two or three days." 

Q. " What was your condition when he came to see you?" 

A. " The symptoms were the same as before, only growing 
worse all the time, and I gradually became weaker, with a high 
fever." 

Q. " Did he prescribe for you?" 

A. "He did." 

Q. " Did you follow his instructions?" 

A. " I did." 

Q. " What were the results?" 

A. "In a short time I got hot all over, very hot, fairly 
burned, then the sweat came and I sweated freely; pains all 
left me, and in a few days I was up and mended rapidly and 
got well. Francis M. Kersey." 

Subscribed and sw r orn to before me, Chas. P. Kern, a notary 
public, in and for Boone county, Indiana, this, the 20th day of 
March, 1SS2. 

Witness my hand and seal. 

Chas. P. Kern, Notary Public. 

My remedy in this case was a mild emetic of salt 
and hot water, which threw up plenty of bile off his 
stomach ; then ground mustard and vinegar — one 
quart of vinegar and half a tea-cup of ground mus- 
tard, the mustard boiled in the vinegar for ten min- 
utes — bathed him and rubbed it all over him to get 
the pores open and the skin hot ; then I gave him 
ten glassfuls of crushed ice internally to drive the 
heat to the surface and cool him inside. It shows 
how the cold will drive the blood to the center if 
you apply cold to the outer extremities. I had a 



38 THE HOME GUIDE. 

jug filled with boiling water and put to the feet to 
keep them hot. 

Affidavit of Jeannette Holloway. 

Question. "What is your name, and age?" 

Answer. "My name is Jeannette Holloway, aged 72." 

Q. " How long have you known L. H. Kersey? " 

A. " About ten years." 

Q. " What are his moral standing and habits? " 

A. "They are good, as far as I know." 

Q. "Were you taken sick with something like the lung 
fever? " 

A. "I was taken with a bad cold and fever." 

Q. " What were your symptoms? " 

A. "My lungs were badly stopped up, had high fever, 
body was very hot, and my hands and feet were cold, terrible 
pains in my head, and left side, a dry hacking cough, with 
very severe pain in the left side. When I coughed I had terri- 
ble pain in my left lung, my bones pained me and my limbs 
were cold." 

Q. " Did L. H. Kersey prescribe for you? " 

A. "Yes. he did! " 

Q. " Did you follow his prescription?" 

A. "I did." 

Q. " Did you get immediate relief? " 

A. "I did." 

Q. "In what way?" 

A. "Pains left my head, lungs, and limbs; my limbs, feet, 
and hands got hot, I sweated freely, and went to sleep inside 
of three hours; I felt easy, and rested well all night, got up 
next morning, dressed myself, went to the fire, and coughed, 
spitting up large quantities of material from my lungs, ate my 
breakfast, and improved very rapidly, and was soon well." 

Jeannette Holloway." 

Subscribed and sworn to before me, Chas. P. Kern, a notary 
public, in and for Boone county, this 20th day of March, 1882. 

Witness my hand and notarial seal. 

Chas. P. Kern, Notary Public. 

This lady had taken a cold, and it had run for six or 
seven days ; then she had taken to her bed, and had 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 39 

been bed-fast two days. Her limbs were very cold, 
body very hot. She complained very much of pains 
in her head, lungs and limbs. She had a dry, hack- 
ing cough, but could not cough up any material, and, 
when she coughed she complained very much of 
the terrible pain in her left side. For a cure, I had 
her to take eight or ten glassf uls of pulverized ice. 
In less than two hours her limbs, feet and hands 
were very hot, and she wanted to put them out from 
under the covers, but I would not let her, for what 
I wanted was to get her hot outside and cooled off 
inside. She sweated freely, and next morning she 
coughed up about a teacupf ul of matter. 



Statement of Allen F . Coombs. 

"I was binding oats and cut my hand with an oat straw; 
took erysipelas in the hand and arm ; had it for eight days. I 
went to Doctor Porter, and he said I had erysipelas. He gave 
me a prescription, which I took to the drug-store, and they 
gave me a vial of iodine. I rubbed it on my hand and arm. 
My arm was very painful, and swollen to twice its right size. 
The night before L. H. Kersey treated my arm, I did not sleep 
one hour all night with it, it pained me so badly, and, after 
two oclock in the night, I walked the floor until morning. I 
went to town, and went to L. H. Kersey's store. He examined 
my arm, and told me what to do for it. I did what he told me, 
and in one hour there was no pain, and in three hours, the arm, 
hand, and fingers were smaller than the others. It cured it in 
full. Allen F. Coombs." 

My remedy was a hot water bath, in a tubful, as 
hot as he could stand it, the temperature kept up 
all the time to the same point. I have cured a 
number, in the same way, of swellings, bruises, 
proud flesh, strains, and all forms of swollen limbs. 



40 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Statement of Lurana Kersey, Lebanon, Ind., Dec. 6, 1887. 

She tells of an instance in Kentucky, of a man 
who had typhoid fever, and had been confined to his 
bed thirteen or fourteen days. He was very bad, 
limbs cold, legs cold to his knees, arms cold to his 
elbows. The doctor gave him up to die, and told 
his family and attendants to give him whatever he 
wanted. He craved water, and they went to a spring 
and got it, and he drank and kept drinking it, in 
large quantities, till he had taken a bucketful, or 
more. He began to get hot externally, and kept 
getting hotter, until he said he was burning up, and 
then the sweat began to pour off of him in large 
quantities, with the miserable smell like there was 
a dead animal in the room. They had to open the 
doors and windows to let out the foul odor. Now, 
think of this mass of corruption, which caused all 
the trouble, cast out of him by water, while the 
drugs had never moved one atom ; only filled him 
fuller of it. You see what he needed was water, 
and he drank plenty of it thereafter, and he got 
well. 

In another case, two sisters died with typhoid 
fever, and the third was taken with it. It ran four- 
teen or sixteen days, and the doctor gave her up to 
die. A mulatto girl waited on her, and she begged 
for a quart of butter-milk, with ice in it. At last 
the mulatto girl consented to bring it to her, if the 
white girl would promise to never tell it. The mu- 
latto girl went to the ice-house, or "spring-house," 
got a piece of ice, and a quart of butter-milk, put 
the ice in the milk, and took it to the white girl, 
and she drank all of it. At first she took about 
one-half of it, and the mulatto girl hid it, and in 
about ten minutes, she drank the other half, and in 
a short time began to sweat, and the mulatto girl 
thought it was the death-sweat. The white girl 
went to sleep, and slept about a half an hour, and 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 41 

when she was waked up by her mother, she was 
feeling better, and mended every day, until she 
entirely recovered. When they took off her under- 
clothes they say they were as yellow as saffron, 
and that the material was hard to wash out, and 
never was entirely washed out. 



Danville % Ills., January, 1878. 

I was selling my pamphlets and maps in this 
place, and I went into a house, sold the lady a pam- 
phlet, sat down and talked to her awhile, and she 
told me how she had treated her children for measles 
the winter before. Her oldest daughter took the 
measles, and she gave her ice. One of the neigh- 
bor women came in, and was horror-stricken to see 
her feed or give the child ice for measles, and 
begged her to quit. But "no quit," said the lady. 
She gave her a large quantity that evening, and she 
said that the other lady came in frequently, to see 
how the child was, and found her easy, and next 
morning she was broken out in full-bloom, and the 
child was up in a few days, and at school again. 
The mother treated all the rest of her children the 
same way, with good results, and treated many in 
the neighborhood, with the same results. The lady 
that called in, and objected to her giving the ice, 
had her to administer to her children, when they 
took the measles, for fear she, herself, might make 
a mistake. 



Another Statement. 
"My father was taken with yellow fever at Baton Rouge, 
La., and the doctors would not let him have water. He got 
very bad, craved water very much, and oue night the nurse 
went to sleep, and he crawled to the kitchen and says he drank 
half a bucket of water, crawled back to bed and sweated freely 
and recovered. He felt much better as soon as he began sweat- 
ing; drank all the water he wanted, and after he sweat he im- 
proved and got well. Ezra Knight." 



42 THE HOME GUIDE. 

James Ack 'a State . l:\ngsourg. _L' :;"-... SepL 30. 18S8. 

••My father, Daniel Aekley, had measles, and the doctors 
would nor allow him any water. He laid two days with no 
sign of measles. A young man sat up with him. Late in the 
night the young man went to sleep. There was a barrel of 
eider in the room, and father crawled out of bed. to the eider- 
el, drank a half gallon of cider, crawled back to bed, and 
: freely. Xext morning the measles were out in full, and 
the smell was intense. He recovered in a few days. 

"I had one son to take typhoid fever. The doctor gave him 
one pint of whisky each day. and he died. My other son took 
the fever. I called in the doctor, and he ordered whisky — one 
pint each day. I resolved he should not give him whisky, and 
forbade it. So I went t<:> swearing him, and he recovered in a 
short time without drags. I have no use for doctors. 

James Ackley," 



Testimony of John P. Taylor and T. E. Taylor, Grand Gulf. Miss. 

CONSUMPTION. 

Question. •• How long had your wife been ailing when I came 
there." 

Ansxc- . •• About three months." 

Q. -'Give her condition, and who doctored her. before I 
was called in." 

A. '-Dr. Wharton, of Port Gibson, was our physician: he 
gave her up: said it was only a matter of time, she could not 
last more than ten days, that she had consumption, and was in 
the last stages. She had several hemorrhages from the lungs; 
I can not remember how many. When you first came there 
she was very low: as low is could be: could not hear her 
speak across the room." 

Q. "Now, I want sts tement of what you used, and what 
you did. under the direct! lis I gave you." 

A. ■• Well, the first thing, after throwing aside the medicine, 
which was cod-liver oil and brandy, — the principal remedies 
on hand, at the time — mustard was used externally, and water. 
cold water, and ice. Mustard was used first, then cold water. 
and, then, dieting." 

My treatment was this : I recommended mustard. 
both mustard and wheat bran, made into mash, 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 43 

it would not drip any water out of it ; not strong 
enough to blister, but enough to make the skin 
scarlet-red. After it was made into a mush, it was 
put in a sack, and placed over the chest. It was 
kept on three or four hours. The diet was Graham 
bread, oat-meal porridge, dry stewed peaches, lean 
meats, game, and beef broiled without salt, grease, 
or butter. She commenced to improve, and im- 
proved rapidly. In ten weeks she was able to be up 
and about ; in fifteen weeks she was about well, and 
has had reasonably good health ever since. 



Testimony of Mrs. Julia Long, Yicksburg, Miss. 

BILIOUS FEVER. 

Question. " What kind of fever did you have? " 

Anscner. " Bilious fever."' 

Q. ''Who was your physician?" 

A. "Dr. I: T. Beail." 

Q. M Please give a statement of your case." 

A. %l I was sick about a week or ten days. I was very thirsty, 
but they would not let me have any water. My husband had 
been sitting up with me every night, with instructions from the 
doctor to watch me and to give me a little water now and then. 
Finally, when he saw I was so determined to get water, he 
locked the door and put the key in his pocket, and laid down 
and went to sleep. When I saw that he was asleep, I got up 
and took the key out of his pocket, and went out to the well 
and drank bountifully. " 

Q. - k What amount of water did you drink? " 

A. - ; Well. I don't know ; just as much as I could drink, and 
felt better, too. I perspired freely, went off to sleep, and got 
better from that moment." 

Q. "Did you drink water freely after that? " 

A. " Xo. I did not care for it. My fever subsided, and I had 
no more thirst after that." 

(Mr. Long, husband of Mrs. Long, says her statement is 
correct in every respect.) 



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Testimony of Mrs. Julia Long. 

YELLOW FEVER. 

"This was a case of a colored girl who worked for me. She 
had yellow fever. The doctor would not allow her to have any 
water. There was a bowl of ice-water in the room by the bed- 
side, and she took the cloth from her head and dipped it into 
the bowl. She then sucked the water out of the cloth uutil she 
got as much as she wanted. She recovered." 



Testimony of G. W. Long. 

YELLOW FEVER. 

" I knew a gentleman whose family, and himself, were all 
sick with the fever. They all died, except the man, and he 
was very low. He was given up to die, and had a nurse 
watching him. She made a large pitcher of ice-water, but 
gave it to him in small quantities only, upon instructions from 
the doctor. He was very thirsty, and finally " played off " asleep. 
The nurse, thinking he was asleep, went to sleep, also. He 
got up, and drank the pitcher of ice-water, and began to 
improve from that time. He perspired very freely, the fever 
went off immediately, and he commenced to improve, and got 
well." 



Testimony of J. L. Taylor, Baton Bouge, La. 

CHRONIC DIARRHOEA. 

"I had a child, one year of age, who had chronic diarrhoea. 
Had a doctor from Baton Rouge, who attended it for six months. 
This doctor would not allow the child to have but very little 
water. One day the child crawled out of doors, to a chicken- 
trough, and drank all the water it contained. We sent for the 
doctor, and when he came, I insisted on knowing what was the 
matter with the child, but he did not give any satisfactory 
answer. My father was a doctor, so I sent for him ; had botli 
doctors the same day. They held a consultation, and both 
admitted they could not help the child. After that, both of us 
being worn out with nursing, I sent for an old lady, living 
about eight or ten miles off. She came, and when she found 
out what was the matter with the child, she told us she could 
cure it. She took a prickly-pear, and split it open, and put it 






CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 45 

into a pitcher of water. Knowing the child had not been given 
any water, she gave it freely of the water, and it was not long 
before it almost drank the entire contents of the pitcher. She 
continued to give it water freely, and the child perspired freely, 
and commenced to mend, and in ten days improved very much. 
In a short while it was entirely well." 



Testimony of James L. Taylor. Baton Rouge, La. 

YELLOW FEVER. 

" I knew a fisherman who had yellow fever, and the doctor 
at Baton Kouge had given him up, but would not allow him to 
drink any water. The waiter carried a bucket of water into 
the room ; he drank a good part of it, perspired freely, and 
commenced recovering. He finally recoverd entirely, without 
any other treatment." 



Testimony of John Smith. 

SCARLET FEVER. 

" The patient was a doctor's child. He had several children 
sick with scarlet fever. Five children were sick at one time. 
He attended them himself, but also had other doctors. Four 
of the children died, and the fifth was very ill, when an old 
lady in the neighborhood, without the knowledge of the doc- 
tors, gave the child as much water as it wanted. It commenced 
to improve at once, and was the only one out of the five which 
lived, and it got entirely well." 



Statement of John Long, Cairo, Ills., April 2, 1888. 

"My uncle was very low, with typhoid fever in 1856. Doc- 
tors gave him up to die. He craved water, and the doctors 
would not give it to him. He asked his wife to give it to him, 
and she would not do it. Then he had one of the children to 
bring a bucketful of water, and set it by the bedside, with a 
dipper in it, and he drank to his full satisfaction. His wife was 
crying, to think he would kill himself with water, as the doc- 
tors said it would, and his wife thought the doctors knew it 
all. He drank, and sweated, until the bucket of water was 
emptied, sweating freely, and feeling better. The doctor came 



46 THE HOME GUIDE. 

in, and found the bucket sitting by the bedside, and began to 
abuse 1113^ uncle, but he felt so much better that he abused the 
doctor, and discharged hiin, and drank all the water he wanted, 
and got well without a doctor." 



Statement of Capt. Benjamin Howard, St. Louis, Mo., March 
27,1888. 

Captain Benjamin Howard is captain of the great 
steamboat "City of Monroe," in the "AnchorLine." 
They have about twenty line steamers. 

" My statement is that a man, on the lower Mississippi 
river, on board of a boat, was taken with the cholera. There 
was no doctor on board, and the man got very bad. The 
captain said to the men, k We must not let that man die 
without an effort. So I ordered a barrel filled with hot water, 
as hot as the man could bear, and I put in a half-pint of 
mustard. I also took a half-pint of hot water, and put 
in a half teaspoonful of mustard, made him drink the hot water 
and mustard, put him in the barrel of hot water with the mus- 
tard in it, placed a comfort over the top of the barrel, and had 
jugs, filled with boiling water, put in the bed, to get it warm. 
I warmed a sheet, and let him stay in the barrel of hot water 
twenty minutes, took him out, and rubbed him dry, put him in 
bed, and placed the jugs of hot water around him, and sweated 
him freely, and he got relief in ten minutes after we put him 
in the barrel of hot water, and seemed to recover fast. When 
he sweated the smell was immense; one could hardly bear it; 
and his clothes were as yellow as a man with the yellow jaun- 
dice. He recovered rapidly, and in a few days was up and 
going about, and got well without a doctor, or a drug. A 
doctor would have given him calomel, which will kill a well 
man.' " 



Another case is thus related by Captain Howard : 

"My brother was struck with paralysis so severely that he had 
to keep his bed, and the doctors could not do him any good. 
Having cured a man of cholera on the Mississippi river, I 
thought the same remedy would not hurt my brother, and 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 47 

perhaps it would do him good. So I ordered a barrel filled 
with hot water, and cooled it to a temperature just so he 
could stand it. I put about oue pint of ground mustard in 
the barrel of hot water, and took a pint of hot water, as hot as 
he could drink it, and put in it a half-teaspoonful of ground 
mustard, had him drink the hot water and mustard, and put 
him in the barrel of hot water and let him remain there twenty 
minutes, with the barrel covered over with a bed comfort. I 
had jugs filled with boiling water and placed in the bed to get 
it warm, took him out of the barrel of hot water, had a sheet 
warmed and placed it over him, rubbed him dry, put him in bed 
and placed the jugs of hot water around him, and kept him hot 
while he sweated freely. The sweat smelled very offensive. 
It seemed to make everyone almost sick, and his underclothing 
was very yellow. He got entirely well, soon." 



Captain Howard also tells me he has cured yellow 
fever in the same way that he cured cholera, and 
other diseases, as appears in his statement of the 
cure of his brother of a paralytic stroke. He says 
he uses the same cure for almost all diseases. He 
is correct, as in all manner of diseases the system is 
full of corruption, and it has to come out. The 
true art is to open the pores with heat and moisture, 
and take plenty of ice-cold water internally, or hot 
water tea, made from some common herb, or hot 
water with mustard, ginger, pepper, or some hot 
substance in it, and sweat freely, keeping the body 
warm and moist afterwards. Keep a yard of white, 
woolen flannel, doubled several thicknesses, wet in 
warm water with mustard in it, place it over the 
stomach and chest, place a dry one over it, and 
repeat it every day, keeping it on five or six hours 
each day, — the longer the better — as it softens the 
skin, and warms it, and lets out millions of atoms of 
corruption. As the people live at this date, they 
are full of corruption. See the mass that smallpox 
casts out, or causes to be cast out. See how it rots 
the skin and flesh. Is there any wonder that you 



48 THE HOME GUIDE. 

have pains when this stuff rots the flesh? So, now, 
it is understood by all the professors in our medical 
colleges, that, no matter what disease a man mav be 
afflicted with, let him take smallpox, and get well of 
it, and he is well of the other diseases, even the liver 
complaint, for it casts out all the essence or sub- 
stance of disease. 

You have noticed, in all cases where patients were 
sweated, how people speak of the bad smell that is 
in the room. There have to be atoms, or particles, 
floating in the air before you smell anything. Smell 
is similar to taste, and when atoms of corrupt mat- 
ter come in contact with the organs of smell, they 
are very offensive. Just smell the atoms of a dead 
carcass, which are only a little worse than the rot- 
ten matter from a sick person. You also see that 
many say, after sweating a sick person, how yel- 
low their under-clothing is. It is a common thins: 
to And their clothing very yellow. Now, it takes 
material to change their clothes to this color. Keep 
this in mind, that in all diseases there is the same 
corruption as in smallpox, and that material must 
come out; and can you imagir.e that a little drug 
(that would kill a well man) will take out ten to 
fifteen pounds of this rotten matter? " No," I say, 
" never, but it helps to kill the sick person !" To 
aid the blood, or the water, to do its work, we must 
open the pores, keep the skin hot and moist all the 
time, in all manner of sickness, and generally apply 
the methods of treatment heretofore described in 
detail. 



J. J. Buffers Statement. 

Mr. J. J. Duffee, a wholesale and retail grocer, 
and a very prominent citizen of Memphis, Tenn., 
was interviewed by a reporter, and the following in- 
formation in regard to the yellow fever epidemic of 
1878-79, was obtained. He said : 



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" I was 111 Memphis during the yellow-fever of 1878-79. Mr. 
Frank Blessing was taken with the fever in Kaleigh, Tenn., 
(nine miles from Memphis) and it was an impossibility to ge* 
anybody in Raleigh to take him into their house ; so, as a last re- 
>ort, I took my covered grocery wagon, procured a mattress, and 
put him inside the wagon. When I first took his temperature 
it was 104 degrees. I gave him a dose of calomel, and, after 
waiting five hours, gave him the customary dose of castor oil. 
He was exposed to the air all the time. Thinking that he 
could not possibly recover, I allowed him to drink all the water 
he wished. Frequently during the night, and during the day, 
he would get up, go down to a spring close by, and drink the 
water continually ; he actually poured the water into himself, 
he was so very hot. In about five days he was convalescent. 
He perspired very freelj 7 after drinking the water, and that was 
the reason we thought he was going to die. 

"During the fever of 1878 the smell was very plainly dis- 
cernible, and in all cases, very offensive. 

"Dr. Wilkes, of Pulaski, Tenn., came to Memphis and was 
assigned to my district. He had a ' hobby,' and that hobby 
was bi-carbonate of potash. Shortly after he came, my mother 
was taken with the fever, in Raleigh, Tenn. She was seventy- 
eight years of age, and being very old, I did not think she 
could possibly recover. We gave her a dose of calomel, and 
the customary dose of castor-oil, afterwards; then we gave her 
all the water she could drink, with bi-carbonate of potash in 
it. and she drank a great deal of the mixture. She recovered 
inside of eight days, perspiring very freely, and during the 
whole time used nothing at all but water and carbonate of 
potash, the potash mixed in the water. She had the customary 
smell of that year. 

" This bi-carbonate of potash was tried in almost every case 
Dr. Wilkes came iu contact with, and he did not lose a single 
case that he saw in time — six hours from the time they were 
taken with the fever. If he saw them in that time, the disease 
succumbed to his treatment. 

"To my knowledge. Dr. Wilkes cured fifteen or twenty, 
under his treatment, in my district." 



John Johnson's Statement. Memphis, Tenn., January 15,1888. 

"I was president of the Howard Association at Memphis, 
E 



50 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Term., in 1878, during the yellow fever. I had yellow fever, 
was sweated freely, and recovered. I had got up and about, and 
was called to see a young man who was veiy low— limbs 
cold, wrists and ankles cold, with high fever in his bod} r . He 
was considered past recovery. He asked me for a water-melon. 
1 sent for one, and it was brought — a large one. I cut it in two, 
and placed one half on a table at the bedside. He ate it all, 
and laid still for a few minutes and asked for more. I gave him 
the other half and he ate all of it, laid down, and seemed easy 
for a while, and then he began to kick and throw his arms 
about and get the cover off himself. I felt his limbs and they 
were very hot. We held the covers on him the best we could, 
as it was hard to do, and the sweat began to flow from his fore- 
head. In a short time it came out all over him, but before it 
came on his limbs they seemed to burn with heat. As soon as 
he sweated freely, the heat moderated down to normal tempera- 
ture. He began to recover when he began to sweat freely, and 
the smell in the room was very offensive to all who were there. 
When we stripped him his clothes were very yellow, and never 
were got clean. We gave him all the water-melon he could eat 
thereafter, and he got well." 

See how the man's life was saved, and how easy 
to save life if one will study man's system. 



Capt. Ad. Storms' 1 s Statement, Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 18, 1888. 

" I was clerking in a store, in New York City. Another 
young man clerked in the same store and we roomed together. 
He was taken with typhoid fever, and the doctor doctored him 
twelve or fourteen days, and gave him up to die. His limbs 
were cold, his body hot, and he begged for ice. I swore he 
should have all the ice he could eat. I went to an ale-house, 
and had a lady I knew to fill a large bow T l, holding about one 
gallon. I took it to him, and he ate all of it, in less than one 
hour, and seemed easier. His limbs began to get warm, and 
he begged for more ice. I went, and had the bowl filled again, 
and he ate about half of it, and his limbs got very hot, and soon 
the sweat began to flow freely, and he seemed easy. I never 
saw a man sweat as much before, or since, and the smell in the 
room was terribly offensive, and next morning I stripped him, 
and his clothes were as yellow as the yellow of an egg. I 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 51 

gave him plenty of ice, and he recovered fast, did not take any 
more drugs, and got well." 

And Captain Ad. Storms says, that «* the doc- 
tors don't know one thins: about diseases." I find it 
so. They acknowledge that they know nothing 
about the essence or the substance of diseases. As 
I have discovered it in full, it is easy to explain the 
whole cause. 



Capt. HalVs Statement, Memphis, Term., January 17, 1888. 

44 A lady came here from Chicago in 1878, in time of yellow 
fever, and began treatment among the poor people, white and 
black. She treated a number of cases of yellow fever success- 
fully. I noticed her success, and my daughter taking yellow 
fever, I called her in, and she treated my daughter. She took 
one-half bushel Irish potatoes, boiled them, put them in stock- 
ing legs, and placed them around my daughter; had her to 
drink hot tea, sweat her freely, and the smell was as foul as 
rotton flesh; and when she was stripped, her clothes were yel- 
low and full of corrupt material. She cared for my daughter, 
and she got well without a drug. Then I took this woman to 
my house, found her a home while she remained, and she cured 
others the same way. That was her remedy, and she very sel- 
dom failed to cure; and when she did, the fault was mostly the 
carelessness of the patient, eating too soon, or eating too much. 
As the stomach is very weak — just as weak as the person feels — 
it is easy to eat too much and overload it. In all cases where 
people were cured of yellow fever, they had to be sweated very 
freely; and it does'nt matter much how they are sweated or 
what with, so they don't get cold and let the air to them after 
sweating. If made hot by hot material, you sweat with ice 
taken internally, you are not apt to take cold so easily, but it is 
best to be careful. 



My Brother's Case. — What I Know Cured him of Typhoid Fever. 

He had a severe cold for eight or ten days, cold 
feet and hands, chilly, bones ached, high fever in 
the body, with head-ache, and pains in the small of 
the back. He took to his bed, and lay for two or 



52 THE HOME GUIDE. 

three days. I was called to see him. I found him 
with cold limbs, high fever in his body, severe pain 
in the head and back, and his bones pained him. 
The first thing was to throw the bile off his stom- 
ach. He drank hot water and salt, bathed his 
limbs with a strong mustard-bath, placed a jug of 
boiling water to his feet and back, took ten glass- 
f uls of pulverized ice in three hours, four in the first 
hour. He sweated freely for about two hours, and 
the smell of the corrupt matter was very offensive. 
He says he felt good in three hours after they com- 
menced on him, slept well that night, and ate a 
pretty fair breakfast next morning. See how I 
cleaned him out. His limbs were hot in one hour. 
A man can't be well, or get well, with cold limbs, 
feet, and hands. Whenever the feet and hands get 
cold and keep cold, you may soon look for disease 
of some kind, as the flow of corruption remains in 
the body. 



What Other People Say, 



William Wyckoff, of Danville, 111., said in a case 
of typhoid fever, of a friend of his, who got to be 
very bad : 

" One day at two o'clock the doctors said the sick man 
could not live forty-eight hours, as his limbs were cold, arms 
cold to the elbows, legs cold to the knees, and begging for 
water, which they would not let him have. "When night came 
a nephew of the sick man. and another young man came to sit 
up with the patient. The nephew brought in a bucket of water 
and set it on a chair. All the rest of the family went to bed. 
leaving the young man and the sick man's nephew to sit up 
with him. About three o'clock the two young men went to 
sleep, and the sick man crawled out of bed to the bucket of 
water, took the dipper, and helping himself, drank all he could, 
laid down and rested awhile, got up. and again drank all he 
could. Then the two young men waked up, and as soon as 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 53 

they found what he had done they were horrified, and went up 
stairs and waked up William VVyekoff and the man that was 
sleeping with him. Then the family was all called to see the 
sick man die. All were trembling with fear. I felt his feet, 
hands and limbs frequently, and soon they began to get warm, 
and grew warmer until they got very hot, and then the sweat 
began to flow, and you never saw a man sweat so. It poured 
off him till he sweated so much that the feather tick was wet 
through and through, and we had to open the doors and win- 
dows to let out the filthy smell. It almost made all of us sick." 

Think of the rotten matter that was carried out of 
his body. Would drugs have carried that material 
out? No! I asked Mr. Wyckoff about his urine. 
4 'It was almost thick, and very full of dregs for 
several passages," he replied. "Did the man take 
any more drugs ? " ' ' No, sir ! " " Did he get plenty 
of water?" " Yes, sir! " "Did the man improve 
much?" "Yes, sir! He drank all the water he 
could, and improved very fast, and got well." 

Jacob Dye, near Zionsville, Boone county, Ind., 
tells me of his father, who was very bad with fever, 
and a man gave him all the water he could drink, and 
he sweated freely and got well. Mrs. Bowers, near 
Whitestown, Ind., saved a little girl who had scarlet 
fever, by giving her two pitchers of water. She 
sweated freely, stopped the doctor, and the child 
got well. 

Captain Guning, of Vicksburg, Miss., says, in 1878 
he cured more people, who had yellow fever, than 
any other man in Vicksburg. After he told me how 
he had done it, I asked him to tell me how he 
ofot started — how he caught the idea or method of 
treatment. He told me that in 1853 he had yellow 
fever, and the nurses and doctors would not let him 
have water. He said he was burning up with fever 
and wanted water badly, and felt as though he would 
be willing to die if he could get all the water he could 



54 THE HOME GUIDE. 

drink. But that would not do ; according to allo- 
pathic doctrine it would kill at once. At breakfast- 
time the white people went to breakfast, and a mulatto 
girl brought in a pitcher of water, and went out. 
He crawled out of bed to the pitcher, which was on 
a chair. He crawled up to it, drank about half of 
it, laid down two or three minutes, raised up, and 
drank till the pitcher slipped, rolled off on the floor 
and broke. In came the white folks, and picked him 
up, and put him in bed, in great fear that he would 
die any minute. In a short time the sweat came out on 
him profusely. It seemed to pour out in streams, 
and all the doors and windows had to be opened 
to let out the odor from the rotten material. He 
commenced to feel better and better, drank all the 
water he wanted, and would not take any more 
dru^s. He ^ot well, and has saved manv others 
since, without drugs. 



New Town, Arkansas, 1879. 

As I was going down the Mississippi river in a 
flat-boat, I stopped and stayed all night at this place. 
Next morning the wind was very high, and the waves 
ran high, so we could not travel. I went up to a 
house, and a very nice cottage it was, and nice peo- 
ple lived there. I had stopped there the fall before, 
and knew the people. They treated me very kindly, 
and we had a pleasant chat. Having told them 
what I had learnt about diseases, and the cure of 
diseases, they told me of a case that happened in 
the neighborhood. A boy, twelve or thirteen years 
old, had scarlet fever, and was very bad. His 
mother did a washing, and rinsed the clothes, and 
went out to hang them up. The boy crawled out of 
bed into the kitchen, took a wash-pan and dipped it 
up full of the rinsing water that was in the tub. 
drank it, and kept dipping it full and drinking, till 



CUKE WITHOUT DRUGS. 55 

lie drank two pansfull. His mother came in and 
found him on the floor, and frightened to think 
he had drunk the deadly stuff ; she took him to 
bed and sent for the neighbors to come in to see 
the boy die. But to their great surprise he sweated 
all the corruption out of him and got well. Water 
was not such a kill-all as it was thought to be. But 
look out for the drug ; it will do the work. 



Mr. Day's Statement, Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 1886. 

"West of Detroit, Mich., T owned a farm. Adjoining was 
another farm, the owner of which was taken sick with typhoid 
fever, and was very bad. He begged for water. The man who 
sat up with him refused to give it to him. At last the sick man 
told him he would assume all the responsibility himself, and 
begged so hard that the man gave him all he could drink. It 
sweated him freely. After that he quit taking drugs, and drank 
all the water he could hold, and improved rapidly and got 
well." 

Now, friends and readers, one gallon of water, 
drank cold, hot tea of any herb, or ice, is worth 
more than a barrel of drugs. The drugs kill, where 
the water, in any form, washes the dregs out of you, 
and nothing else can do it. When a person wants 
water, tea, ice, or warm water, give it. Where 
there is high fever, or flux, consumption, rheuma- 
tism, or any manner of diseases, use ice internally, 
and freely, when the stomach is clear of food. Let 
all food get out of the stomach before using the ice, 
or cold water. Don't be afraid of ice. 



56 THE HOME GUIDE. 

The True Art of Healing, 



The art or method of healing seems to have never 
been understood. Most people have the idea that 
they must place a salve or something on a cut, 
bruise, or burn, to heal it, which would imply that 
the material must be taken from the salve to re-build 
or fill up the space, hole, or vacuum. This is not 
the case. For instance, if I should cut the muscle 
of my thigh to the bone, there would be an open 
space. To join the parts together over this opening, 
and fill it with sound flesh is what is needed. When 
a person is sick four or six weeks we don't apply 
a salve to rebuild the flesh, but what he eats and 
drinks makes his flesh, and he is restored or re-built 
in that way. Now, take a salve, close the cut, and 
place the salve on the cut. It acts as an artificial 
skin only. What we eat and drink makes our blood, 
and it, or its atoms, are carried by the water of the 
blood to the cut, through the arteries and veins, and 
the injured part is re-built. See in a broken bone, 
how it is re-built and knit together. Now, if vou can 
stop the destruction of an}' part, even the lungs, the 
blood will heal the injury over, as there is plenty of 
evidence to prove it to any man of sense. If you 
can stop the rotten material going there, then you 
can rely on the blood to heal the lungs, as has been 
done in many instances : one at Muncie, Ind. ; one 
at Lima, Ohio ; one in Grand Gulf, Miss. ; one in 
New York City ; and myself, in 1873, after eigh- 
teen months of cou^hin^. 

In the instance suggested, that I cut the muscle of 
my thigh to the bone, there would be an opening, or 
vacuum, to be filled. To do this, and heal the cut, 
it would be necessary to keep out air and dirt. Keep 
it warm and moist so the blood will circulate to the 
place and fill it up, as this is what takes place in the 
healing process. Now, what is needed is a salve, or 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 57 

something that will keep up this soft and moist con- 
dition. Keep out dirt and air, and hold the parts 
firm. Some waxy substance that is not poisonous 
to the flesh, and acts as an artificial skin, enabling it 
to retain the moisture and heat that flow from the 
body, so the blood or water can carry the molecules 
to the place and fill it up. The materials for the 
work have to come from the blood. Now, I may 
call your attention to a broken bone. There you 
use no salve, but just the same the blood carries the 
materials, and knits or heals the bone together. In 
cases where arteries have been cut, and each end tied 
together, it has been discovered that a pipe is formed 
around, connecting the ends together, and the blood 
flows through the same as before. The lungs are 
healed in the same way if you stop their destruc- 
tion by corrupt or waste matter. You can see in 
scrofula how the healing is done without salve. 



General Instructions. 



Finding in almost all diseases that there has to be 
a lot of rotten matter, or broken-down tissue got rid 
of or moved out of the human structure, you know 
now that you have to aid the water, commonly called 
" blood," in this process. When a person has fever 
he is full of rotten matter and broken-down tissue ; 
his pores are closed, and his skin partly dead and 
dry. He has in his body, perhaps twelve to sixteen 
pounds of virulent matter, and it must come out 
before relief can be obtained. In almost all 
diseases there are great quantities of such virulent 
matter, and to remove this you must open the pores, 
or holes of the skin, and sweat freely. To do that 
I will name several ways. First, drink hot tea, 
take ground mustard and boil it in vinegar, and rub 
the whole human structure, from the soles of the 



58 THE HOME GUIDE. 

feet to the ears, with it ; put in all the mustard you 
can stand ; fill four one-gallon jugs with boiling 
water, cork them and place them in bed ; go to bed, 
and place jugs as near you as you can bear them ; 
then drink hot tea until the sweat comes freely. In 
place of jugs of hot water some use boiled corn, 
boiled potatoes, etc., but it does not matter what 
you use so you sweat freely. Ice used internally for 
all kinds of fevers, flux, consumption, and inflamed 
stomachs, is better than hot tea or hot water. Oint- 
ment should be used in all chronic diseases, and 
made as described here. One pint of oil, (cocoa- 
nut, olive, or refined cotton-seed) with two ounces 
of pulverized cayenne pepper. Rub this over the 
whole body, at night on going to bed. Wash it off 
in the morning with warm water and soap, and wipe 
dry with a warm sheet. This ointment will benefit 
patients in all manner of diseases, as it softens the 
skin, and the cayenne pepper keeps the skin hot 
or warm, expanding it and opening the pores so the 
water called "blood" can carry the rotten matter 
out. The hot tea, water, or ice will help to carry 
this rotten matter out of the body (see "No. 1 Man 
and No. 2 Man,") as has been demonstrated. The 
No. 2 case referred to had no rotten matter, or 
malarial poison, or parasite. It all took wings and 
flew. But No. 1 was full, and smallpox made it get 
out to the amount of twelve or sixteen pounds. Now, 
dear reader, what we want is to get that twelve or 
sixteen pounds out of the human structure without 
smallpox. That is easily done. Just sweat one 
freely and it comes out, as all fully attest. When 
one sweats who is sick, the smell is as offensive as 
that of a dead and decaying animal in the room. 
Food must not be changed from natural growth, 
for it meets all the demands of all parts of the body 
plainly cooked. (See Seeds of Diseases, and see 
Foods for Instruction, for this is no trivial matter, 
but full of philosphy, reason, science and common 
sense. ) 



Extracts, 



The Irrepressible Conflict. 



by R. t. trall, M. d., in Tlie Science of Health. 



The people are asked to believe that it is necessary for reg- 
ularly-educated physicians of the drug-system to examine all 
who propose to practice the healing art, in order to ascertain 
their competency, and in this manner protect the people from 
being killed by ignoramuses. This argument would be weighty, 
and perhaps conclusive, provided the drug doctors could agree 
among themselves. But it happens that the practice that one 
physician approves as curative, another condemns as killative. 
We could easily fill The Science of Health with quotations like 
the following : 

The older physicians grow, the more skeptical they become 
to the virtues of medicine. 

Prof. Alex. H. Stevens, M. D. 

Drugs do not cure disease, disease is always cured by the 
vis medicatrix natural. 

Prof. Jos. M. Smith, M. D. 

Blisters nearly always produce death when applied to chil- 
dren. Prof. C. R. Gilman, M. D. 
Digitalis has hurried thousands to the grave. 

Prof. David Hosack, M. D. 
More harm than good has been done by the use of drugs in 
the treatment of measles, scarlatina, and other self-limited dis- 
eases. Prof. Alonzo Clark, M. D. 
Bleeding in pneumonia doubles the mortality. 

Prof. H. G. Cox, M. D. 
The drugs which are administered for the cure of scarlet 
fever and measles, kill more than those diseases do. 

Prof. B. F. Barker, M. D. 



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As we place more confidence in nature, and less in prepara* 
tions of the apothecary, mortality diminishes. 

Prof. Willakd Parker, M. D. 
Opium increases the nerve force. 

Prof. B. F. Barker, M. D. 
Opium diminishes the nerve force. 

Prof. E. H. Davis, M. D. 
We do not know whether our patients recover because we 
give them medicine, or because nature cures them. 

Prof. J. W. Carson, M. D. 
The action of remedies is a subject entirely beyond our com- 
prehension. 

Prof. John B. Beck, M. D. 

Of the essence of disease very little is known ; indeed, noth- 
mg at a11. Prof. S. D. Gross, M. D. 

The medical practice of our day has neither philosophy nor 
common sense to commend it to confidence. 

Prof. Evans, M. D., F. R. S. 
I fearlessly assert, that in most cases the patient would be 
safer without a physician than with one. 

Prof. Ramage, M. D., F. R. S. 
I visited the different schools 01 medicine, and the students 
of each hinted, if they did not assert, that the other sects killed 
their patients. 

Prof. Billings, M. D. of London. 

Thousands are annually slaughtered in the quiet sick-room. 

Prof. Frank, M. D., London. 
The language of medical science is a barbarous jargon. 
John Mason Good, M. D., F. R. S. 

It is my firm belief that if the medical profession, with its 
prevailing mode of practice, were absolutely abolished, man- 
kind would be infinitely the gainer. 

Francis Cogswell, M. D., Boston. 

I declare, as my conscientious convictions, founded on long 
experience, and reflection, that, if there was not a single phy- 
sician, surgeon, man-midwife, chemist, apothecary, druggist, 
nor drug, on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness, 
and less mortality than now prevail. 

Jas. Johnson, M.D., F. R. S. 
Editor of the Medico- Chirurg. Beview. 






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Such is the system, as judged by its own teachers and prac- 
titioners, that the legislatures of the different States are asked 
to enforce on the people by special statutes. Xo wonder the 
profession wants protection. All of these efforts to perpetuate 
the drug-system by law, under the hypocritical and knavish 
pretense of protecting the people, originate in medical societies; 
and mostly with those members of the medical profession who 
have so little practice that they have plenty of time for plan- 
ning schemes of benevolence, and prosecuting enterprises of 
charity and philanthropy; provided always, they are calcu- 
lated to benefit the business and perpetuate the power and influ- 
ence of the party of the first part. 



Vegetarian Society. 



A society in Germany publishes a tract for general distribu- 
tion, in which under the heading, " How Do We Live'?' 1 occurs 
the following summary : 

1. We slay no animal for food, and consume none of the 
products of such slaughter. 

2. Our daily bread is sweet, and consists of grain (wheat, 
corn, rye, barley, oats), which we grind coarsely and bake; 
also of millet, rice, peas, beans, lentils, etc., which we boil. To 
this add especially all kinds of fruit. 

3. We avoid all stimulating condiments, such as pepper, 
ginger, nutmeg, cloves, garlic, mustard, etc. 

4. We thirst, therefore, seldom, and drink little. We avoid 
spirits (beer, wine, brandy, etc.), also tea, coffee, and vinegar, 
and drink water, or the pure juice of fruit mixed with water. 

5. We avoid all stimulating, nerve-blunting indulgences, 
especially the hateful tobacco smoking, chewing and snuffing. 

6. Cleanliness of the whole body, and the hardening of the 
same is with us a rule of life, and especially do we care for the 
normal activity of the skin as the condition of sound health. 

7. We subsist, also, very much upon the air, and take care 
that it shall be pure and fresh where we live, where we work, 
and especially where we sleep. 



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8. The heavenly sunlight is our life, therefore we allow it 
to penetrate our dwellings, in order that these may be diy, and 
the air therein healthful. 

9. Work, bodily and mental, is our delight. We seek 
healthful and useful labor, and love conflict; but only against 
superstition and all uunaturalness. 

10. We aim at moderation in all things, as the true condi- 
tion of enjoyment. 

11. We reject all medicinal poisons, and everything that can 
act injuriously upon the blood. 

12. Through soundness of body we seek soundness of mind, 
and through soundness of mind we act again upon the body, and 
thus secure for both a higher degree of enjoyment than is pos- 
sible under the usual flesh-eating mode of life, with its conse- 
quences. 



Biliousness. 



This is not understood by medical men. Bilious- 
ness is or can be best explained in this way : When 
the system or body is tilled with corruption, the 
stomach out of order, and functions are working 
badly, the gall in the gall-bladder is held in reserve 
for an emergency, and when food is taken into the 
stomach unneeded, it will not digest. Theu the gall 
flows from the gall-bladder, and that is what is 
called biliousness. It is the gall and food mixed, 
and the food does not digest rightly, and in many 
cases this produces yellow jaundice, or what is com- 
monly known as yellow " janders." The gall-blad- 
der holds the gall in reserve for an emergency, and 
when needed it is emptied into the stomach to relieve 
it of its burden. If you will never burden the sys- 
tem and stomach, then there will never be any use 
for the gall, and then you will never be bothered 
with biliousness or bile on the stomach. Plain, 
common food and frequent bathing are the remedies 
necessary to avoid all this, and this course would 
save many a doctor's bill, and many a night's sleep. 
To lose sleep, with me, is the greatest loss I meet 
with, and is never paid back. 

Biliousness is caused by the whole body or struct- 
ure filling full of corruption, when the stomach 
becomes disordered and inflamed, and there is too 
much stuff taken into it. To try to get rid of that 
excess of useless material the gall is emptied into 
the stomach in larger quantities than usual. This 
makes one sick at the stomach, and when one throws 



64 THE HOME GUIDE. 

it up it is culled biliousness. The trouble is that the 
whole system is full of grease or carbon. Yellow 
jaundice, calied yellow "janders" by many, is the 
same trouble. In that case the biliousness or the 
bile of the gall is carried all over the whole body, 
and the blood, or water carries it out through the 
pores, and it shows up yellow, and, as many mole- 
cules lodge in the skin, they make the skin yellow. 
As there is nothing without a cause, so there is a 
cause for all of this, and that cause is grease or car- 
bon, converted into rotten matter in the human 
structure, and to get rid of that material one must 
open the pores, or holes in the skin, and that can be 
done by moisture and heat, as already directed : 
Bathe, rub dry with a warm sheet, rub the whole 
body, limbs and all, with an ointment made from 
cayenne pepper and cocoa-nut oil, or sweet oil. You 
may use a little peppermint oil, or cinnamon oil to 
scent it, and it will do no harm to drink plenty of 
water, tea, or hot water, and diet or feed the body 
wholesome or perfect food. 

Many diseases can be so classed, as fever and ague, 
chills and fever, intermittent fever, congestive chills, 
congested liver, congested stomach, congested lungs, 
congested brain, are all biliousness. Where there is 
trouble there is rotten matter, for that is what causes 
it. Take a person with any one of these troubles, 
and sweat him or her freely, and you can cause to be 
cast out millions of molecules, or atoms, or particles 
of rotten matter. I so speak from actual experience, 
and the experience of others, all of whom testify to 
the same. When a person with any one of these 
diseases is sweated, the smell in the room is abomi- 
nable, and makes them sick and faint, almost like a 
decaying animal in the room. Now you can't smell 
anything until there are molecules, or atoms coming 
in contact with the organs of smell. This sense is 
almost like taste. There are millions of rotten atoms 
coming in contact with it, and we smell it. There 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 65 

are millions of other atoms carried off in the urine, 
also, and in the air we throw off from our lungs. 
Many times I have sat by persons whose breath was 
so offensive I had to move — I could not stand it. 
Now, to remove all this filth follow former instruc- 
tions, and sweat freely, and keep warm, the skin 
soft, the feet and hands warm, drink water freely, 
eat perfect food, breathe pure air, let the sun shine 
in your rooms, let pure air in your rooms, and health 
will be vour lot. 



Rheumatism. 



Rheumatism, so called, is not without a cause or 
a substance. To find what that substance is, I say 
to professors of medicine: ''Bring me a man who 
has rheumatism — one whose muscles are not con- 
tracted ; let me take him, and expose him to small- 
pox. Say he takes the disease, and the corruption 
is cast out of him, and say he gets well of smallpox." 
I ask them, " What about the rheumatism?" They 
say, "He would be well of rheumatism." I ask 
them, "What that corruption is that is cast off by 
the smallpox?" "They do not know." I sayto them, 
"Find what that is and you will find what the es- 
sence of disease is." Many of them estimate that 
there would be ten to sixteen pounds of rotten mat- 
ter cast out of a man who has the smallpox, and they 
all acknowledge that it takes the rheumatism out of 
a man or woman. After I find what that corruption 
is it is easy for me to know how to cure rheumatism. 
Remove all this material, without smallpox, and then 

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diet, or feed perfect food, and relief follows at once. 
To remove that rotten stuff, open the pores or holes 
of the skin, sweat freely by keeping the skin hot 
and moist, and drink plenty of hot tea, or hot or 
cold water. To keep the skin hot, apply ointment 
made of ground mustard, or cayenne pepper and 
sweet oil, or cocoa-nut oil, rub on a plenty, wash 
frequently with a little hot water and a little soap, 
and bathe frequently. (See Perfect Food and Gen- 
eral Instruction.) 



Impurities in the Blood. 



How impurities are removed out of the human 
structure : If the drug-system is right why do not 
the doctors give drugs to a person who has been 
exposed to the smallpox, to purify his blood, or to 
kill the poison in the blood, or to make way with 
the malaria, so the person would not have the small- 
pox? Can't my readers see how inconsistent it would 
be in that case? Now, if it holds good here, as it 
does, it will hold good in all cases of disease. You 
see, in this case, the blood or water makes away with 
or carries out all the rotten matter from the sj^stein, 
and in thirty days the person is clean of it all. Does 
it take wings and fly, or does some witch, or wizard, 
or ghost, or sprite come along, crawl into a person, 
and chase all the rotten matter out? Sir, it does 
not. The work has to be done, and ways and means 
are provided by the All-wise Creator, and not by 
doctors and drugs. Water is the great dissolver ; 
purified water carries all materials all over the body, 
and carries out the broken-down tissue and rotten 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 67 

matter, and no other thing can do it. See how silly 
it would seem for one to take a drug, after having a 
chance to take smallpox, or having been exposed to 
it, to prevent having the disease, and to kill the 
malarial poison or parasites. It is just as silly to 
give a drug in any disease as it would be in that. 
Drugs are " killative," not curative. Healing, or 
curative agents open the pores, make the skin moist, 
soft and hot, and taken internally are plenty of hot 
tea, or ice, or water. Plenty of water is the great 
cleanser, and not drugs. 



Foul Blood, 



Would one take drugs to rid the human structure 
of the foul, rotten matter, where one had been ex- 
posed to smallpox? No! Well, what carries the 
foul material out in that case no one has been able 
to tell me intelligibly. It is now for me to explain 
it. I say water does the work. It carries out all 
the mass of foul matter. Now, it is conceded by 
all scientists that there is an essence of disease ; no 
question about that in my mmd any more. If there 
is such an essence, water carries it out so that one 
can not have smallpox in a few days. Then it must 
carry it out in all other diseases, and that is just 
what it does, and nothing else can do the work. So, 
all substances are moved, or carried out by the cir- 
culation of water in the arteries and veins, for blood 
is only what we eat and drink. Water is the fluid 
that floats all the molecules to all parts of the body, 
and distributes them all over the human structure. 
(See Water for instructions.) 



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Dropsy. 



Dropsy is caused by the pores of the skin becom- 
ing closed. As many people who are dying in their 
filth never bathe, all the waste of the body, in such 
cases, is retained in it when the holes, or pores of 
the skin become closed. The waste of the flesh and 
bone is thus retained in the body, and, inasmuch as 
the body changes every twenty-eight or thirty days, 
this must be very great. It is large at all times, 
even when the pores are open, but close the pores 
with glue and dirt, and all that material is retained, 
with all the waste that it takes to carry it out. That 
is why water is accumulated so rapidly in a person 
with dropsy. All the air that passes through the 
arteries is retained, inflating the body, and there 
could be no swelling or inflation without this. This 
air-inflation is what is called ''swelling." It is the 
same in erysipelas. The pores are closed, and then 
the air inflates. For a cure for the dropsy the pa- 
tient must be sweated freely, or laid in a bath of 
warm water, six or eight hours at a time, and the 
temperature must be kept up steadily to 102 degrees, 
fever heat. There are plenty of ways to sweat the 
patient. You can boil a half a bushel of ears of 
corn, or potatoes, put them in sacks, place them 
alongside of patient, cover him well, and give plenty 
of hot tea made from common herbs, or hot water, 
and sweat the patient freely, and keep him warm 
thereafter. Take cocoa-nut oil. or sweet oil, and 
cayenne pepper, — one pint of oil, and one ounce of 
cayenne pepper, mix them, and rub all over the 
whole body, and wash frequently and diet. 

Dropsy, like many other diseases, is brought on 
about in the same way, by three or four causes. 
Grease, or carbon, and many other materials are 
eaten in too great quantities, and another cause is 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 69 

that people don't understand what a bath is worth, 
and go in their filth, letting all the pores of the skin 
become tilled up with a waxy substance like glue, 
and with the dirt on the skin, for it will get dirty 
the same as your clothes. When this happens the 
materials that should be carried out of the body are 
retained in it, and the corruption rots the flesh or 
bones, and the air inflates, and the water accumu- 
lates, causing pain. To remove the different mate- 
rials open the pores and sweat freely. 

I will give a statement how dropsy has been cured 
in two different places. One case was related by a 
doctor : When he was at Vienna, Austria, at a medi- 
cal college, a Scotchman came there, and proposed 
to cure dropsy. They all called him a "crank." 
The hospital was under the charge of the president, 
and the Scotchman was permitted to try his remedy 
for dropsy. He had a full bath prepared with water 
as hot as the man could stand it, stripped him, and 
put him in the bath of hot water, kept the water hot- 
all day, and kept the man in it all day. At night he 
placed jugs filled with hot water in the bed, rubbed 
the man dry with a warm sheet, put him to bed, and 
kept him warm. New milk and oat-meal porridge 
was all he let him eat for eight or ten days. He 
kept up the hot bath for five days, then rubbed him 
with an ointment made out of oils and mustard, to 
keep the skin soft and hot, and in twenty days the 
man was well. The doctor said the Scotchman 
treated scrofula the same way and cured every case. 
Remember, the diet was oat-meal porridge and new 
milk only, in all his treatment. 

A lady at Union City, Indiana and Ohio, (part in 
each State,) cures dropsy with hog's lard and cay- 
enne pepper mixed, making the preparation very 
strong with pepper, and rubbing the whole body 
with it, and dieting, or feeding perfect food, and 
washing the patient frequently with warm water and 
soap. She never fails to cure a case now. The 



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cures named for dropsy will cure many chronic dis- 
eases as there is a filth, or corruption in the system, 
in all diseases, and it must come out before relief 
can come. Can it be reasonable that a drug that 
will make a well man sick can move twelve, or fif- 
teen pounds of corrupt matter out of the body? 
How can it be possible? It can not! and it is easy 
for me to see why the doctors never did any one dis- 
ease any good ; they never knew what caused dis- 
ease, or diseases. Not one of them sees how old 
their text-books are and what date they were made. 
It was in the days of witch-craft, clairvoyance, mys- 
tery, and fiction. People then seemed to know but 
little about anything. It seems that almost all the 
great things have been invented, discovered, or made 
in my lifetime. Thought, reason, and research are 
the mother of discoveries and inventions. Millions 
upon millions of thoughts has this work taken from 
me. 



Piles. 



Piles may be produced in three different ways. 
One is by a flow of rotten matter to the rectum, act- 
ing in the same way as a cold, when the nose gets 
sore. It rots the membrane of the rectum, causing 
inflammation and swollen silken veins, and after- 
wards they rot off and bleed. The second cause is 
that in a cold the broken-down tissue may flow 
there, rot the membrane, or skin of the rectum, rot 
off the silken veins, and bleed, get sore, and cause 
great pain when you have passages. The third cause 
is that when people eat concentrated food it almost 
all dissolves, and, so passes into the circulation, 
leaving but little waste to stop in the rectum. It 
takes so long to accumulate a sufficient amount for 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 71 

a passage that it becomes very dry and hard, fever 
sets up in the rectum with inflammation and swelling. 
This material being dry, hard, rough, and scaly, 
when you have a passage, it tears off the skin of the 
rectum, and then the rotten matter runs there to es- 
cape, making it still more sore, causing the silken 
veins to rot off and bleed, and it keeps getting sorer 
every day. The remedv is to take a sweat, svringe 
the rectum three times a day with warm rain water, 
eat food with bran, and all in grains, causing plenty 
of waste for the bow T els, and keep the bowels free in 
this way, for it is the natural way, and the easy way, 
and eat perfect food in all things. (See General 
Instructions.) 



Insanity. 



Insanity is not necessarily inherited. It had to 
have a cause, for there is nothing without a cause, 
and nothing without a substance, so there is a cause 
for insanity. Let us see what that cause is. I say 
there is plenty of cause, for when rotten matter 
will rot the nose, lungs, and head, it will rot the 
brain, and inflame and decay it. This is the cause 
of insanity. Many will ask what makes a man or a 
woman go insane, sometimes, by studying too hard. 
That is easily accounted for. One who studies hard 
is apt to have cold feet and a hot head. All the 
corrupt matter is carried to the head. The blood 
flows to the part most worked, and in that case the 
brain is worked too hard, contracting the blood to 
the head, and all the broken-down tissue and rotten 
matter that is retained in the structure mostly goes 
to the brain, causing it to rot. For remedy, heat 
the outer surface (the skin), get all the pores open, 



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keep the outer extremities very hot, moist and soft, 
with oil and cayenne pepper ointment, eat perfect 
food, plenty of watery vegetables and Graham bread, 
and when the stomach is empty of food swallow large 
quantities of ice pulverized. 

Insanity is on the increase, and there is no reason 
why it should not be. In 1880 in the United States, 
there were 91 ,900 insane persons. The causes are easy 
to explain. There is plenty of cause for there is noth- 
ing without a cause, and nothing without a substance. 
There is plenty of substance, as the great mass of 
corrupt matter cast off by smallpox shows. When any 
partis affected there is where this rotten stuff goes, 
and when it goes to the brain it rots the brain, heats 
it hot, keeps it enlarged and swollen, so that it causes 
pain, and then anyone loses his reason. Insanity 
like consumption, is only the brain affected or rotted, 
and it being the seat of reason and thought, when it 
is affected reason is disturbed, and the brain is swol- 
len and enlarged. The old idea of. inheritance in 
insanity has no reason or common sense connected 
with it. It is mere imagination, giving no cause or 
substance, and there is a substance in everything. 
As the substance spoken of in this article inflames 
the brain, so there is a cause for insanity, and a great 
cause too, for what will rot the lungs and other 
parts will rot the brain. (See Perfect Food and 
General Instructions.) 



Pleurisy and Cure, 



Pleurisy is caused, first, by the spleen inflaming 
and swelling; second, by inflammation from rotten 
matter. Too much acid, or any strong acid fruits 
in large quantities will inflame the spleen and enlarge 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 73 

it. The remedy is to sweat freely, eat perfect food, 
keep the feet very warm, bathe often, eat two meals 
each day — breakfast and dinner, and take four to 
six glassfuls of ice for sapper, and no food. Ice 
taken into the stomach when the stomach is empty 
is one of the most effective remedies for many dis- 
eases, as it seems to cool down heat, remove all rot- 
ten matter, all inflammation of the stomach, spleen, 
liver, lungs, heart, bowels, kidneys, colon, rectum, 
head, brain, throat, bronchial tubes, wind-pipe, and 
flesh. It will extinguish more heat than any one 
thing. Fevers of all kinds yield to ice quicker than 
to any other one thing, if taken in large quantities, 
say twelve to twenty glassfuls in two hours. The 
results are wouderful, and the reason is easy forme 
to comprehend. Fever and inflammation are com- 
mon heat produced by a combination of substances, 
and ice being the reverse of heat it will subdue more 
heat, or extinguish it quicker than any other thing. 
Get away from witches, ghostism, imagination, poi- 
son, malaria, and parasites, and come to grease, 
white flour, butter, sugar, molasses, salt, and many 
other things for your malarial poison and parasites, 
and it is here we find them. (See General Instruc- 
tions.) 



Kidney Affections. 



Kidney affection, like many other diseases has its 
origin in the rotten matter of the body. It is noticed 
by professors that wmere a person has kidnev affec- 
tion, and takes the smallpox, and gets well of it, he 
or she is well of the kidney affection. When we 
find that the rotten matter will make a person's nose 
sore in a bad cold, and make the head sore in ca- 
tarrh, and make the lungs sore in consumption, why 



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will it not make the kidneys sore? It will, and 
smallpox will remove all of that corruption, and the 
kidneys get relief as they cease rotting. The mate- 
rial that smallpox casts out will rot flesh, and that 
is what causes pain in the different parts, in dis- 
eases. To cure kidney affection treat the whole 
body in the same manner as in dropsy, rheumatism, 
scrofula, and diabetes. Many other diseases can be 
successfully treated in the same way. Many female 
diseases can be treated with good results in that way, 
as well as nervous debility, feebleness, weakness, 
headache, and the like. 



Cholera 



Cholera should be classed as a contagious disease 
sent on man for a warning against the violation of 
natural laws. There is nothing without a cause, and 
nothing without a substance, so there is a cause for 
cholera, and what is the cause? Man's body is full 
of filth, the stomach is in a bad condition, the blood 
is caused to rush to the stomach and leave the flesh 
to grow cold on the limbs. All the blood leaves the 
limbs and rushes to the centre to the stomach. 
When the blood leaves the limbs the flesh gets cold 
causing contraction, and you call it " cramp." Now, 
if the flesh did not get cold there would be no con- 
traction, and if there was no contraction there would 
be no cramp, for the contraction is the cause of pain, 
and pain is caused by the blood leaving the limbs 
and letting them get cold. Make the person warm, 
prepare a barrel of hot water, put in half a tea cup 
of ground mustard, and put the patient in the barrel 
of hot water. Take a teaspoon half-full of ground 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 75 

mustard, put in half a pint of hot water and have 
the patient to drink it. Put a comfort or blanket 
over the barrel, bathe twenty minutes, and while 
bathing fill jugs with boiling water and place them 
in the bed, rub the patient dry with a warm sheet, 
place him in bed and place the jugs as near him as 
he can stand, and keep warm, and after bathing 
sweat freely, and give perfect food. 

Now this is a first-class cure for sinking chill, as 
it warms the patient at once, or for a shake and chill 
in chills and fever. You can use a bath-tub or a 
barrel to bathe. (See General Instructions.) 



Paralysis, 



Paralysis or "paralytic stroke," so called, — these 
terms are lacking in definite meaning, as there is no 
stroke. The nerves are burnt up or rotted. They 
are the means of conveying thought to the muscles 
to cause the muscles to act and perform their duty. 
When the nerves are destroyed they become like a 
disabled telegraph wire, or more like it was broken, 
and the electricity has to stop at the end where the 
wire is broken. When the nerves of conveyance are 
destroyed and the mind acts there is nothing to con- 
vey the thought to the muscles, and then they do 
not act, as when the wire of a telephone is broken. 
The thought that man sends over the wire to another 
man does not arrive and the message is a failure. 
So with the nervous system when the nerves are de- 
stroyed and dead. They can not convey the message 
to the muscles, and all fails to work on account of 
the message not being delivered. Now, work on the 
nerves, remove the cause, (that is rotten grease and 
salt, the same that is cast off by smallpox,) and the 



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blood will repair the nerves. Sweat freely, open the 
pores, keep the skin soft and warm ; eat perfect food, 
drink plenty of water, breathe pure air ; exercise, or 
have some one to rub the whole body freely, cause 
friction of the skin, keep the bowels free and open, 
first by a mild physic, then by the bran that is in 
Graham flour, as that is a natural thing for that pur- 
pose, for without it your bowels are very likely to 
get wrong and become bound up, or fail to have a 
passage. See how Captain Ben. Howard cured his 
mother. (See Perfect Food and General Instruc- 
tions.) 



Scrofula, 



Scrofula is much like rheumatism. It is rotten 
matter oozing out through the skin, and all profes- 
sors and M. D's. well know that if a person has 
scrofula, and takes smallpox, and gets well of it 
there are no traces or symptoms 'of scrofula left at 
that time ; and the patients say that they never felt 
so weli as immediately after they recover from the 
smallpox. When they filled up with grease again, 
then scrofula might come back again. Now all the 
doctors understand what makes corruption for small- 
pox — grease, fats, sugar, molasses, and salt. Why 
can't they see what makes corruption for scrofula, 
when smallpox cures scrofula? To cure scrofula 
get the corruption out of the body. That can be 
done by sweating freely, and keeping the skin soft 
and hot with oil and cayenne pepper, dieting, or eat- 
ing perfect food. Let the blood do the work, as 
the water of the blood will do all the work if you 
give it a chance. Water carries all material to all 
parts of the body, and carries all material out of the 
body. ( See Perfect Food and General Instructions. ) 



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Fevers, 



YELLOW FEVER. 

In yellow fever the person is full of rotten matter, 
and when that is impregnated with the material that 
the Creator made for that purpose it. only sets tire to 
the rotten material to chase it out, the same as the 
material made to chase the rotten material out in the 
case of smallpox. He sent this material to do this 
work. If you do not lay the foundation for such 
diseases you will not have them. You violate almost 
all the natural laws, and you must bear the burden. 
Now, see how the smallpox rots the skin when the 
rotten mass is cast to the surface, and see how hot 
they get. Yellow fever casts the same kind of ma- 
terial out, and cleanses the body in full, about the 
same as smallpox. No matter what disease a per- 
son may be afflicted with, take yellow fever and get 
well of it, and there are no symptoms left of the 
other diseases — not even consumption. The same 
holds good with smallpox ; no matter what the dis- 
ease is. let the person take smallpox, and get well of 
it, and there are no symptoms of the other diseases. 
In yellow fever all persons who have treated it say 
when they sweat the patient the smell is so bad they 
have to open the doors and windows to let the odor 
of the rotten stuff out. See how many millions of 
molecules, atoms, or particles are coming in contact 
with the organs of smell. The sense of smell is 
similar to that of taste, and such stuff will make well 
people sick. In such cases they say their under- 
clothing is always very yellow after sweating freely. 
There are many ways to cause sweat, every one having 
his hobb}', but the only secret is to sweat them 
freely. It does not matter how, so you take good 
care of them after sweating them, and do not let the 



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cold air touch them for several hours, and give but 
little food for four or five days. Sweating is the 
great secret in all manner of diseases, and keeping 
the outer extremities hot, and the internal parts 
cold. Keep fever down internally, and heat the 
outer parts. 

Cure for Yellow Fever. — Yellow fever was 
cured in many ways, as I found by investigation in 
many places. Capt. A. A. Nichols, Grand Gulf, 
Miss., tells of a mulatto curing several cases. His 
remedy was one pound of ground mustard put into 
a pan with boiling water poured over it, letting it 
stand fifteen minutes, and then prepare a bath of 
tepid water, put mustard and hot water in bath, 
have the room warm, fill jugs and bottles with boil- 
ing water and place them in bed, bathe the patient 
for fifteen minutes in the mustard bath, and rub 
hard ; warm a sheet, rub patient dry with the warm 
sheet, and place him in bed, putting the jugs and 
bottles near him, and have plenty of covers on the 
bed. In the beginning he took corn-husks and made 
tea of them, and had the patient to drink it very hot 
and in large quantities — one pint every ten minutes, 
for one hour, — and had the sweat to pour off the pa- 
tient, and when sweating freely the smell was so of- 
fensive they had to open the doors and windows to 
let out the rotten matter, and when stripped the 
under-clothing was very yellow and offensive. There 
were millions of atoms of rotten matter brought out 
with water and heat. Could a little drug bring out 
all this twelve or sixteen pounds of rotten matter? 
" No," I say, " it is folly to talk so." Now, who 
is it that can not see this in full. Water is the means 
by which all such materials are dissolved, and car- 
ried out of the system. 

Capt. Ad. Storms, Memphis, Tenn., used an 
effective remedy. He prepared a large alcohol 
lamp, filled it with alcohol, lighted it, took a white 
blanket and wet it in warm water, stripped the pa- 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 79 

tient, and wrapped the wet blanket around him, then 
placed the patient in an arm chair and wrapped two 
or three comforts around him, and let them come 
down to the floor ; made tea of some common herb, 
had it hot, gave the patient one pint every ten min- 
utes, and placed the alcohol lamp under the chair as 
soon as ready, let the patient get hot and sweat 
for one hour freely ; had jugs filled with boiling wa- 
ter, placed them in the bed, let the bed get warm, 
then warmed a sheet and stripped patient, placed 
the warm sheet around him, rubbed him dry, put 
the patient into bed, took out the jugs of boiling 
water all but one, kept it at his feet, let him cool 
off slowly, and w r as very careful of his food. 

Capt. Ad. Storms says, if every person would 
treat themselves this w r ay as soon as yellow fever 
appears in a city, they, perhaps, would not have 
yellow fever. 1 feel perfectly satisfied that if peo- 
ple would all do this, then diet or eat perfect food, 
no one would have yellow fever, for it only causes 
to be moved out the rotten matter that must come 
out. 

My view of yellow fever I will state briefly. As 
there is nothing without a substance the problem is 
to find the substance in cases of disease. When yel- 
low fever patients sweat it comes in large quanti- 
ties. All persons testify to the smell in said cases. 
I find it doesn't matter how much they are sweated ; 
if they sweat freely they get relief. Then this de- 
stroys the old idea what will cure one will kill 
another, or what is one man's bread is another man's 
poison. This is about as thin as witch-craft, or "a 
chip off the same block," for I find in most all dis- 
eases you must warm the outer extremities, and the 
hotter the better — make them as hot as patient can 
stand, then, internally hot tea, hot water, or ice, in 
many cases. Now, I am fully convinced to-day, that 
if anvone who takes smallpox could be sweated ex- 
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in hot water, wrung out, and changed often, all the 
material can be taken out in one hour. They may 
save the same person from having pits formed, and 
after one has a chance for yellow fever, smallpox, or 
any contagious disease, sweat freelv for one hour, 
diet, or eat perfect food, and there need not be any 
fear of contagious disease or diseases. This is fully 
demonstrated with me to-day, after finding what the 
seeds of disease are. By removing the seeds of dis- 
ease it can not have a growth, or a hold that will 
enable it to master the svstem. It will hold s;ood 
in all manner of diseases to remove the seeds of the 
disease, and then the blood heals the wound. (See 
the True Art of Healing.) 



TYPHOID FEVEE. 

The cause of typhoid fever is that the pores of 
the skin become closed, the broken-down tissue re- 
mains in the system, and the rotten or corrupt mat- 
ter is carried back by the blood or water to the lungs, 
head, the organs, muscles, bones and brain. Then 
you say you have a bad cold. Let this continue for 
six or eight days and a fever shows up. This often 
terminates in typhoid fever. It always commences 
with a cold, the pores become closed, the feet cold, 
and all the materials retained in the body are car- 
ried back and settle in the different parts, rotting 
the flesh, organs and brain, and at the same time 
producing that high temperature of heat called 
fever and pain. 

The remedy is to get the stomach entirely free of 
food, give the patient crushed ice, — eight or ten 
tumblers-full — sweat the patient by taking one quart 
of vinegar and a tea-cup of ground mustard, put 
the mustard in the vinegar, boil it ten minutes, and 
sponge the entire body with the vinegar and mustard. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 81 

Fill three one-gallon jugs with boiling water ; place 
one at the feet, one at the back, and one in front of 
the patient ; give the crushed ice in large quantities, 
ice is best, but if the patient will not take ice, make 
a tea of some common herb, have it very hot, and 
give a half-pint every live to seven minutes until the 
sweat comes freely. After sweating freely for one 
hour let the patient cool slowly : after four to six 
hours strip the patient, sponge him with tepid water, 
wipe dry with a warm cloth, use an ointment made 
of oil and cayenne pepper, as heretofore directed, 
wash patient and then dress in clean clothing, and 
let the patient eat perfect food, following the Gen- 
eral Instructions. 



LUNG FEVER. 

The cause of lung fever is that the pores become 
closed, the rotten matter or broken-down tissue is 
retained in the body and limbs, and the blood mov- 
ing that back, trying to make away with it, carries 
it to the lungs, head, and to all the parts of the human 
structure, but carrying a greater per cent, of it to the 
lungs than to the other parts, and filling the cells of 
the lungs. At first this is called a bad cold. It leaves 
the limbs cold, the pores closed, and ail this rotten 
matter or broken-down tissue is carried to the lungs, 
tilling them with it, and rotting them, causing inflam- 
mation, swelling, and a high degree of heat. This 
is called fever. At the same time the muscles 
and brain are charged with the same kind of material, 
rotting the flesh and brain, and causing severe pain. 
This is spontaneous combustion producing heat by a 
combination of substances. (See Heat for descrip- 
tion. ) 

The remedy is, get the patient hot and moist outside 
and cold inside, (as the patient would be hot inside 

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and cold outside.) Give ten or twelve glassfnls 
of crushed ice internally, letting the patient swallow 
the ice rapidly, take one quart of vinegar and one 
tea-cup of ground mustard, boil them together for 
ten minutes, and with this sponge the whole body of 
the patient, wipe dry with a warm cloth ; fill four 
one-gallon jugs with boiling water, wrap some cloths 
around the jugs, place one at the feet, one at the 
hips, one at the back, and one in front of the pa- 
tient, and as near to patient as he can bear them. 
Keep the patient well covered, and after six hours 
bathe him, wipe dry with a warm cloth, and let him 
eat perfect food. (See Food, following General 
Instructions.) 



BILIOUS FEVER. 

The cause of bilious fever is that the whole human 
structure becomes filled with rotten matter, the stom- 
ach becomes inflamed, the food does not digest, 
the gall-bladder empties a part of its contents into 
the stomach, causing biliousness, and the rotten mat- 
ter produces the heat called fever. This rotten mat- 
ter contains a large amount of carbon, better known 
to all as grease, fats, sugar, molasses, and white 
flour, the flour being almost all carbon or fat. These 
materials, combined with the other elements, produce 
heat, and fever is only the common heat produced 
by this combustion. 

The remedy is to sweat the patient freely, give 
hot tea or water internally, take one quart of vine- 
gar and a tea-cup of ground mustard, put the mus- 
tard in the vinegar, and boil them ten minutes. 
Sponge the patient with this, wipe dry, and fill four 
jugs with boiling water, wrap some cloths around 
them, place one at the feet, one at the hips, one at 
the back, and one in the front, and as near to the 
patient as he can bear them. Give hot tea or hot 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 83 

water until the patient sweats one hour, then after 
letting him cool awhile wash the skin with tepid 
water, wipe dry, and let him eat perfect food. (See 
Food for instruction.) 



SWAMP FEVER. 

The cause of this fever is eating fat pork, white 
flour, lard, butter, and fatty material, which rots 
in the human system, and fills it full. This, com- 
bined with other elements, produces heat, and, as 
heat can not be produced without substances, it takes 
a combination of them to produce it. Without these 
substances there would be no heat. Carbon is one 
of the principal elements of heat, and is made from 
all kinds of fats, grease, butter, sugar, and molasses. 
Now, get rid of this material, and then the sys- 
tem cools off the same as drawing the wood or coal 
from the fire in a stove. W r ould not the stove cool 
off? Yes, it would, and so will the body cool off 
when this matter is removed from the system. This 
can not be done with a drug ; it can only be done 
by sweating the person freely — make it pour. Clean 
the entire human structure ; sweat out as much ma- 
terial as the smallpox would cast out, and then you 
can get well, and not until then. (See Typhoid 
Fever and Bilious Fever,) and follow the same 
instructions for a remedy. If you have to live in 
swamps, and low marshes, eat perfect food, lean 
flesh, and no hog meat, Graham bread, oat-meal 
porridge, watery vegetables, and fruits with very 
little acid ; bathe frequently, keep the pores open, 
change the clothing often, let the sun shine into all 
of your rooms, and keep everything clean and neat 
about vou for health. 



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BRAIN FEVER. 

Brain fever is caused by a flow of rotten or cor- 
rupt matter and broken-down tissue to the brain. 
It heats the brain very hot, like it does the nose in 
a cold, and rots the brain the same as it rots the 
nose. Now, to remedy this, sweat the patient the 
same as for other fevers, wrap the head with cloths 
wetting them in hot water so as to open the pores of 
the head, give the patient plenty of ice-cold water, 
or hot tea. The ice is best used internally as it will 
subdue the heat faster than hot tea. Follow the gen- 
eral instructions as in the other fevers, keeping the 
patient warm and the bowels open and free. 

Almost all manner of acute diseases can be treated 
in the same way ; sweating freely, and getting out 
twelve or fifteen pounds of rotten or corrupt matter 
and broken-down tissue, for many people do not 
bathe enough to keep the pores open, and many eat 
so much stuff to make this corruption, and so when- 
ever the cold air touches them their pores close and 
the corruption and broken-down tissue are carried 
back to all parts of the body in the same way that 
it is carried to one place. Quit your folly, and re- 
member you have a body, and meet its needs, and 
}^our life may be of some use to you and to others. 



HAY FEVER. 

Hay fever, or what is so-called, (it is not neces- 
sary to apply that name, as "hay" has nothing to 
do with it,) is caused from eating grease, fats or 
carbon, sugar, molasses, white flour, and all such 
stuff. This produces a great part of the heat by 
a combination of these substances, the carbon being 
the principal element of heat in the human struct- 
ure. Now, without a substance, or substances, there 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 85 

is nothing, so the rotten matter or broken-down tis- 
sue is the trouble. 

Now, to remedy or cure the patient : If full-grown 
you must take out of the system about the same 
amount of material as smallpox would cast out — 
twelve to sixteen pounds of this corruption and brok- 
en-down tissue. To do this sweat freely, use an 
ointment made of oil and cayenne pepper, as de- 
scribed elsewhere, eat perfect food, and when the 
stomach is empty swallow plenty of ice crushed fine, 
take plenty of exercise in the open air, let pure air 
into your room, let the sun shine in it and relief 
will come. 



SCARLET FEVER. 

In scarlet fever the pores become closed, and the 
waste carbon is retained in the body producing heat 
and fever. This is common heat produced by ma- 
terial, or an excess of materials. Carbon, or grease, 
is one of the principals of heat, and, as there is 
nothing without a substance, or substances, then it 
takes material to produce fever. Now to extract that 
material many ways can be used : a warm bath with 
mustard or cayenne pepper, bathe twenty minutes, 
warm a sheet, rub the patient very hard, have bot- 
tles oi- jugs filled with hot water while bathing the 
patient, place them in the bed, and have it warm 
before the patient is put into it, place the bottles or 
jugs as near as the patient can bear them, give ice, 
or cold water freely, and if the patient will not take 
either of them make a tea of some common herb — 
it does not matter what kind of an herb, for hot 
water will do all that is necessary, — get the patient 
to sweat freely, and then be careful not to let the 
cold air get to him. Keep him covered and warm 
for several hours, let him cool off slowly, strip him 
when cooled off, and wash him with water milk- 



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warm, and with some mustard or cayenne pepper in 
it, and then put the patient in a warm bed. Never 
let the patient get cool, as that closes the pores, and 
a relapse comes. Give very little food, Graham 
mush, oat-meal porridge, and a little fruit with little 
or no acid. 

Croup, whooping-cough, quinsy, sore -throat, 
chills and fever, congestive chills, and many other 
such diseases can be successfully treated this way, 
as all disease is caused by the pores becoming closed 
and full of corruption, and to get well it must be 
gotten out. 



SPOTTED FEVER. 

The cause of spotted fever is. the waste or rotten 
matter is carried to the skin and settles there, caus- 
ing spots to form. Now, to explain how color is 
produced oue has to study chemistry. Color is pro- 
duced by a combination of materials or substances. 
For instance, take iron or steel, rub it bright, drop 
a drop of water on it, let it stand awhile, and you 
have rust. Now, there is a new color to the rust, 
neither the color of the iron, or steel, nor the water. 
The same is true in many other things. Take two 
substances of different colors, combine them, and 
you change the colors. Add a third substance, and 
you change the colors again, and so on. Now the 
combination that is cast out on the skin in spotted 
fever causes the spots. 

The remedy is to place the patient in a bath of 
hot water for one hour, give ice internally, place 
jugs filled with boiling water in the bed, getting the 
bed warm. Rub the patient dry with a warm sheet, 
place the patient in the bed, sweat freely, and if 
the patient can't use ice, give hot tea made from a 
common herb, and eat perfect food. (See General 
Instructions.) 






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CHILLS AND FEVER. 

Chills and fever is a disease that is easy to account 
for. When the system is full of corruption, and the 
organs, — lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach, etc., 
are iutiamed, the bowels are sore, the blood is con- 
tracted to the organs and the stomach leaving the 
muscles and flesh of the limbs to become cold, very 
little blood goes out from the body. And what 
happens when it reaches the muscles or flesh of the 
limbs? The feet, bauds, and the blood become cold, 
and on its return to the body, when it reaches the 
hot flesh and blood, the person chills just as though 
he was to take hold of a cold piece of iron on a cold 
morning, only it is worse, for when the cold blood 
reaches the hot body one feels cold all over. All this 
time there is an accumulation of fuel in the body, 
and as soon as the limbs get cold the fuel can not 
escape from the pores, and all the time the chill 
lasts the fuel continues to accumulate in the inter- 
nal parts of the body, until a great accumulation is 
stored up in the body like a great fire, and it bursts 
out all over the person, carrying with it all the rot- 
ten matter, or fuel, and everything. When a chill 
comes on, in order to stop it immediately, fill a tub 
and a bucket with hot water, just as hot as the pa- 
tient can bear, put the feet and legs in the tub of 
hot water, and the hands and arms in the bucket of 
hot water. If the patient will take ice give eight 
or ten tumblerfuls of pulverized ice : if the patient 
can not stand the ice give ten or twelve teacupfuls 
of hot tea, — use a common herb, sassafras or spice- 
wood — so you get the hot water into the patient, and 
if the patient vomits, so much the better. This treat- 
ment can be used in divers cases : chills and fever, 
shakes, congestive chills, cholera-morbus, and in 
fact, even when there are cold feet, hands and limbs, 
head-ache, pain in the limbs, feet and hands. Hot wa- 
ter is a great pain-reliever, — the finest thing for piles. 



88 THE HOME GUIDE. 

erysipelas, soreness, swellings, bruises, and proud 
flesh. Dropsy has been cured by placing the patient 
in a pool of hot water four to six hours each day for 
five or six days. The water must be kept hot all the 
time, and when the patient gets out have a bed ready 
warmed bv filling jus^s and bottles with boiling: water, 
and placing them in the bed before the patient gets 
in, and let them remain in there, and keep the pa- 
tient as warm as he can bear it, letting him sweat 
freely, and cool off very slowly. Be careful not to 
let the cold air strike him at any time, and let him 
eat plain food, and exercise in the open air if you 
can keep him warm ; be sure that he is kept warm in 
all cases of disease, and in all diseases use cocoa-nut 
oil and cayenne pepper, or the oil and mustard, and 
rub it all over the entire body and limbs, etc. (See 
General Instructions.) 



INTERMITTENT FEVER. 

Intermittent fever is caused by the blood in the 
whole system becoming charged with rotten or cor- 
rupt matter, and it acts as a fuel, causing heat. 
This rotten matter rots the flesh, causing pain in 
the flesh, lungs, and all the organs of the body, and 
the head. The remedy is to take two sweats, one 
each day, for two days, drink freely of tea made 
from a common herb, or spicewood, and then keep 
the pores open, the feet warm, eat perfect food, 
and live in the sunshine, breathing fresh air. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 89 

Congestion, 

CONGESTION OF THE LIVER. 

Congested liver is caused by the system being 
full of rotten matter. The liver and the whole 
human structure, from the soles of the feet to the 
crown of the head, becomes inflamed and swollen. 
The blood acts sluggishly, the vessels stopped by the 
swelling so that the blood can not flow, and then 
when this flow of blood is stopped, it gorges the 
liver, and then trouble sets in. The limbs get cold, 
the muscles contract, pains come in the muscles, and 
the liver can not act, or let the blood pass through. 

The remedy is to put the limbs in hot water, or 
give the whole body a hot bath, and drink hot water 
or tea made from some common herb. When relief 
comes get in bed and take a free sweat as described 
in typhoid fever, and change your food and habits 
generally, if you want health. 



CONGESTIVE CHILLS. 

Congestive chills are caused by foul or disordered 
stomachs. The blood does not digest, the system 
is full of rotten matter, the blood rushes to the 
stomach to aid digestion and relieve the stomach, 
the flesh gets cold on the limbs and contracts (called 
cramp), and pains come in the muscles. 

The remedy is to plunge the limbs into a hot 
water bath, drink hot water or hot tea, and to re- 
lieve the stomach quickly take a half teaspoonful 
of salt and the same amount of ground mustard, 
put both in a teacupf ul of hot w 7 ater ; drink the hot 
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90 THE HOME GUIDE. 

hot water until you throw up what is on your stom- 
ach, or in it, and then drink hot tea or swallow ice 
in large quantities, and as soon as relief comes 
sweat freely. Then be careful not to eat very much 
for ten or twelve days, as the stomach is very weak. 
Eat perfect food, keep the feet warm, and sweat 
freely two or three times, and by this means get 
out the tilth and rotten matter. 



CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN. 

Congestion of the brain is caused from inflamma- 
tion. There are substauces and they cause trouble. 
The blood rushes to the brain to remove those sub- 
stances, leaving the flesh of the limbs to grow cold, 
and when the blood rushes to the brain it carries 
back with it large quantities of broken-down tissue 
and rotten matter, dooming and filling the brain full 
of rotten matter, T'otting the brain, and heating it 
very hot with this fuel in such large quantities. 
This is called fever. It is common heat ; no more, 
no less than an excess of heat caused by a combina- 
tion of substances, and as you can not have heat 
without substances, and these substances cause the 
heat of this rotten matter to rot the brain, and the 
great amount of blood rushing there gorges the brain 
with water, so all three of these cause the trouble. 
The remedy is to sweat the person immediately and 
freely, as named in other diseases, and keep the feet 
warm by filling jugs with boiling water and placing 
them at the feet, wet a cloth in hot water, wrap it 
around the head, repeating it often. After you quit 
that, wrap the head with a dry cloth, so as not to let 
the cold air close the pores of the head, and keep it 
warm, the pores open, to let out all the rotten mat- 
ter ; let him eat perfect food, and not butter, fats, 



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and grease ; they are the seeds of disease, and they 
cause almost all the trouble in all manner of dis- 
eases. Take out all of this by sweating freely and 
you soon get rid of any disease. 



CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS. 

There is nothing without a cause and nothing 
without a substance. So there is a cause for con- 
gestion of the lungs. The lungs, or the cells, till 
with rotten matter. That stops the flow of air into 
the lungs, and the blood rushes there to try to re- 
lieve the trouble, and then congestion takes place. 
To remedy this, place the patient in a barrel of hot 
water, or some hot bath, and give him hot tea or 
hot water to drink ; place the patient in bed after 
the bath, and fill jugs with hot water, placing them 
in the bed as close as the patient can bear them. 
This remedy can be applied in cases of congested 
lungs, liver and stomach. The same cure as is 
applied in cholera, will meet congestive cases of 
ali kinds, as the outer surface needs to be warmed 
to attract the blood to the surface and let out the 
waste corruption ; for when the blood rushes to the 
centre and carries back the waste water, that causes 
more congestion, and the hot bath relieves all of 
that immediately and brings the blood to the sur- 
face, and by sweating the person freely, permanent 
relief will result, and a cure will be sure to come as 
soon as all the material is removed from the body. 
In all manner of diseases there is a substance, or 
substances, and that must come out, and heat and 
moisture applied will help remove it, if applied ex- 
ternally, and plenty of ground mustard or cayenne 
pepper applied externally, and plenty of hot tea or 
hot water taken internally, make a great remedy. 



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CONGESTION OF THE STOMACH. 

When the stomach is inflamed and swollen, and 
the food does not digest in the allotted time, the 
blood rushes to the stomach and causes congestion. 
The blood leaving the limbs, they grow cold, the mus- 
cles contract causing pain, the stomach is gorged 
with blood, the circulation is partly stopped, and 
misery and pain are the results. The remedy is to 
remove the material that causes the inflammation, 
and thus aid digestion. To do this, place the limbs 
in hot water, place a cloth over the stomach, after 
dipping it in hot water, and drink hot tea. Keep 
this up until the blood has a free circulation, then 
go to bed, take a free sweat and follow the former 
directions for other diseases, in food and all. 

When a man is diseased he has a lot of rotten mat- 
ter in the system, and that has to be removed before 
relief can be obtained, and as soon as all that is got- 
ten rid of he will have no pain. Then what he 
eats and drinks will build him up, if the food is 
perfect. 



Liver Complaint. 



Liver complaint is an old hobby, and I will show 
you what I get off on the professors of medicine. 

I ask them to bring me a man with liver com- 
plaint — one who has all the symptoms — let me have 
charge of him and say I take him, expose him to 
smallpox, and let him have it, and say he gets well 
of smallpox; and then I ask them, " What about 
the liver complaint?" " Well," they say, " the 
man would be well of liver complaint." Very well ; 
I have you where I want you now. Now, I agree 



CUKE WITHOUT DRUGS. 93 

with you that his liver was affected, but no more 
than his whole human system was, and I say he was 
affected from the soles of the feet to the top of the 
head. Now, gentlemen, where is the rotten matter 
from that is cast out by the smallpox. Is it not from 
the soles of the feet to the crown of the head? They 
say, k4 Yes, sir.'' They say, " That will do ; we sur- 
render, and have no more to say, and give it up 
that you are right: we can see it in full." Now, 
finding that the whole human structure is affected 
with this rotten matter, you must give the body a 
general treatment, sweating freely, bathe freely, 
drink plenty of pure water, exercise freely, breathe 
pure air, and keep warm, especially the feet and 
hands. Don't worry about what you don't get; 
be patient, for contentment is worth more than 
money, and health is worth more than a mountain of 
gold, though men lose their health for money. Eat 
perfect food. (See General Instructions.) 



Heart Disease. 



Heart disease, or what is so-called, is when the 
svstem becomes tilled with rotten matter, and when 
this material lodges in the heart it makes the heart 
or the muscles of the heart swell so that they become 
hard or stiffened, and while in that condition they 
can not act, and thus fail to perform their functions. 
Then the heart fails to cast off the blood as fast as 
it is taken to it, and it becomes gorged with this 
blood, and the filth in the blood, for this filth is the 
cause of the trouble, and so when the heart becomes 
gorged with blood in that condition, and can't rid 
itself of the excess a man can't live, for it is just 
like stopping his w T ind. His life is short. 



94 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Now, to remedy all this make }^our blood pure, 
and let the heart get well, as no drug can remedy 
this. It is folly to suppose a drug would cast out the 
ten to fifteen pounds of rotten matter that would be 
in smallpox, from the human structure, as many 
professors testify, and they also testify that small- 
pox will cure heart disease. If a person has heart 
disease and takes the smallpox and gets well of it 
he will have no symptoms of the heart disease, for 
awhile. Now, don't imagine that that man can not 
have heart disease again, for that would be folly. 
Although it cures him at the time, I say, that when- 
ever he tills up with grease and filth again he is very 
likely to have the heart disease aofain, for what caused 
it first will cause it again ; but the smallpox takes out 
the cause at the time, and leaves the body and heart 
cleansed of filth. Now, if you want to learn a les- 
son please adopt a plan to get rid of this stuff, and so 
get well. Sweat yourself freely, by methods spoken 
of in this work, keep the skin soft, moist and warm, 
and the feet and hands very warm, eat perfect food, 
drink plenty of water, exercise, rub the skin freely, 
breathe pure air ; live in a house where the sun shines 
and sleep in a room where the sun shines in, let the 
window down at the top one inch, and let the pure 
air in, for this is the greatest friend you have, and is 
the cheapest thing we possess, — cheaper than water, 
— as it costs neither labor nor money. Why do you 
destroy yourselves and then charge it to the Crea- 
tor? Charge it to yourselves and blot out all the 
old charges. Take the burden on your own shoul- 
ders and carry it, for you and your forefathers have 
brought all this trouble on you. Now, if you want 
peace, health and pleasure, and happiness, you must 
reform. Stop violating the natural laws, and take 
hold of the perfect mode, and live as men and women 
should, and 'liver and heart disease, and all other dis- 
eases will be scarce. See what advice the doctors give 
to people when the smallpox breaks out : quit grease, 



CUKE WITHOUT DRUGS. 95 

fats, salt, sugar, molasses, and all such stuff. Now, if 
these articles will make the corruption which is the 
cause of smallpox it is right to say they also make 
the corruption which is the cause of a bad cold, and 
all other diseases. A boil is corruption. (See Boils.) 



Catarrh of the Head. 



How catarrh of the head, or so-called, begins in 
a cold : The pores become closed, the broken-down 
tissue is not cast out, but is carried back to the 
lungs, head, and other parts of the body, the largest 
quantity being carried to the head, tilling the cells, 
and this corrupt matter rots the head or the cells of 
the front part of the head, causing inflammation, 
swelling, pain and misery. 

For a remedy one must take a general treatment 
and remove the cause, which is this corrupt matter. 
To do this take a free sweat, make the sweat pour 
off you ; then rub the whole structure with oint- 
ment — oil and cayenne pepper — every night, wash 
with warm water and soap in the morning. Do 
this four or five days. Eat perfect food, exercise 
freely in the open air. keep the pores open there- 
after and live for health. 

Whenever rotten matter commences to be carried 
to any one place, that place or spot becomes inflamed, 
and heat sets in — that is, an attraction of the 
blood or water to the spot in order to remedy or to 
remove the material, and the blood being full of rot- 
ten matter, instead of remedying that spot it carries 
more material there and makes it worse, making it 
more inflamed. To stop all this get the blood clear 
of all rotten matter by sweating freely, use oint- 



96 THE HOME GUIDE. 

merit — oil and cayenne pepper — and follow the Gen- 
eral Instructions, eating perfect food. (See Food 
for instruction. See My Wife's Experience in Ca- 
tarrh of the Head, and read her experience in all dis- 
eases she treats.) 



Diabetes. 



Diabetes is caused by the pores becoming closed, 
the system full of sugar, and rotten matter, etc. 
The means provided to dispose of this mass of ma- 
terial is for the urine or water to carry it out of the 
system . 

Now to effect a cure you must sweat freely, the 
same as in rheumatism or dropsy ; use an ointment 
made of oil and cayenne pepper, the same as in 
rheumatism ; eat perfect food, as directed in rheu- 
matism, and you must not eat to gratify taste or 
eat very much until all inflammation is abated : 
drink plenty of pure water, exercise freely, let the 
sun shine in the bed-room and in the sitting-room ; 
live in the sun all you can ; breathe pure air ; let 
plenty of air into the room, and never be frightened 
at night air. 



Bright's Disease, 



This may be caused by many different things : 
Liquors, beer, sugar, molasses, fats, grease, white 
flour and salt, all these causing irritation, and putrify- 






CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 97 

ing in the system. It settles in the kidneys and 
muscles of the spine, decaying the kidneys, and 
making a rotten or corrupt matter that inflames the 
tubes or pipes, and hinders the passage of water. 
This rotten or corrupt matter passes out with the 
urine. Of this I have some experience u^self. 
In 1873 my urine had considerable of material in it. 
My food at the time was the same as named above. 
The remedy was the same as in fevers. (See Per- 
fect Food and General Instructions.) 



DlARRHCEA, 



The cause of diarrhoea is many times a mixture 
of foods. The stomach fails to digest all of it and 
it is moved down into the bowels. Many times too 
much food is taken into the stomach, and, not 
being digested, passes off into the bowels, causing 
inflammation and heat, and the rotten matter flows 
there, causing the bowels to decay, producing pain 
and many times flux. Diarrhoea is the stomach 
getting rid of material of some kind, where there 
is too much food and where there is a great mixture 
of food. When people will adhere to natural laws, 
then they may live without diseases, and not until 
then. 

For a remedy quit the causes. Eat perfect food, 
drink plenty of water, and swallow large quantities 
of pulverized ice when the stomach is empty. The 
ice is the best thing to cool the bowels when there 
is inflammation in the bowels and stomach. Don't 
fear cramps, as the outer extremities will always 
get hot when you swallow ice. (See statements in 
Affidavits and Testimonials of Other People.) A 

H 



98 THE HOME GUIDE. 

sweat will aid you and keep the pores open and the 
skin warm, moist and soft. An ointment rubbed 
on, made of oil and cayenne pepper is good for this. 
(See General Instructions and Perfect Food for a 
remedy in full. Follow them as in other diseases.) 



Sick and Nervous Headaches, 



Sick headache may come from different causes. 
One is imperfect food; one is too much food ; one 
is too much fat; and another is inflamed brain. 
Nervous headache is caused by the nerves and brain 
being affected by inflammation and swelling. Rot- 
ten matter is the greatest cause. Remove this. rotten 
matter by sweating freely, eat perfect food, drink 
pure water, and all things will work well and the 
trouble will very soon cease to exist. In nervous 
headache and in sick headache drinking hot tea or 
water is one remedy, and another, is to take a dose 
of senna tea, which will cause an action of the stom- 
ach and bowels, and the surplus will be removed 
from them, and you will soon have a passage. If 
many people will drink a pint of hot water and bathe 
the feet with hot water, they will get relief at once. 
To prevent headaches eat perfect food and all will 
come right in a few weeks. I know, as I " have been 
there," and now I vety seldom have headache or sour 
stomach, but I do not eat butter, fats, grease, sugar, 
molasses, pies, cakes, or any such stuff. My din- 
ner to-day consisted of beef, brown-bread, celery, 
and a cup of coffee, and how pleasant I have felt 
all the afternoon, and I would be better off without 
coffee. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 99 

Sore Throat and Bronchial Tubes, 



Sore throat and sores in the bronchial tubes are 
caused by a flow of rotten matter and broken-down 
tissue, and it rots the parts affected the same as it 
does in consumption, sore nose, catarrh of the head 
and rectum. It rots the skin off. 

Now, to effect a cure, use ice inside, keep it in 
the mouth and swallow some. A hot application, 
outside, to the throat and chest, made of oil and 
cayenne pepper, and sweating the whole body, is a 
very essential thing. Keep the pores open all over 
the body by baths and applications of oil and pepper. 
This will be a great help to remove the cause and 
relieve the person immediately. A general treat- 
ment of the body is necessary, and perfect food is 
as necessary as the part named above. Pure air and 
sunshine are also of great importance. 



Bronchitis, 



Bronchitis is an affection of the glands of the 
wind-pipe or air-pipe to the lungs. This is caused 
by a flow of rotten matter or corruption and broken- 
down tissue, which rots the tissue or membrane, and 
makes that part or parts sore and inflamed, swollen 
and irritated. 

To remedy it bathe in tepid water, with plenty 
of cayenne pepper in the bath, swallow plenty of 
pulverized ice, eat perfect food, breathe pure air 
and take plenty of exercise, letting the sunshine 
into your sitting-room and bed-room, and live for 
health and not for habit, taste and fashion, for that 
kills thousands annuallv. 



100 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Bald-Head. 



Bald-head is caused by wearing tight and warm 
hats — hats that retain the heat so it heats the head. 
How many bald-headed women did you ever see? 
It has been noticed by men who have traveled in 
countries where other men are called heathens, that 
they wear something loose and porous, and as a con- 
sequence are not bald-headed. Now, to avoid bald- 
headedness, punch holes in your hat. I have done 
that for ten years. I am 6fty years old and not yet 
bald-headed. 



Sore and Granulated Eyes, 



This is caused, in all forms of sore eyes, inflamed 
eyes, or lids, granulated eyelids, etc., by a flow of 
rotten or broken-down tissue to the eyes. Now, to 
effect a cure, one must sweat himself freely, rub 
well with a warm, dry sheet, take cocoa-nut oil, or 
sweet oil, or cotton-seed oil, — one pint of oil and 
one ounce of pulverized cayenne pepper — mix the 
pepper and oil well, and when you are ready to go 
to bed rub this mixture all over the whole human 
structure, except the face and head, and next morn- 
ing wash with a little water and soap, and rub dry 
with a warm sheet, and bathe the eyes with warm 
water by taking six or eight thicknesses of canton 
flannel, and dipping it in hot rain water, and plac- 
ing it over the eyes. Repeat this, keeping it up for 
three hours, and then place a dry piece of canton 
flannel over the eyes, letting it remain all night. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 101 

Eat perfect food, which makes perfect blood, and 
soon all the soreness will be gone, and healing will 
begin, and very soon all will be well. No one can 
get well of sore eyes unless they quit the cause that 
made them sore, and that cause is grease, fats, salt, 
sugar, molasses, candies, and all imperfect food. 
White flour is very bad. Now, don't say you will 
starve for there are over one hundred perfect things 
to eat. I find plenty. 



Bleeding Piles, 



This is caused by rotten matter and broken-down 
tissue being carried to the rectum by the blood de- 
caying, and the membrane or skin of the rectum 
and the ends of the silken veins decaying, producing 
heat and inflammation, and expanding the arteries 
and veins ; the blood rushes out where the ends 
of the veins and arteries are rotted off. I have ex- 
perienced all this, and know whereof I speak. 

For a remedy sweat the whole structure freely, 
and get rid of twelve to sixteen pounds of rotten 
matter and broken-down tissue ; bathe frequently, 
and use syringe and tepid water first, and then cool 
water. Syringe the rectum for one hour at a time, 
twice a day, as long as there is soreness, and use 
the ointment — oil and cayenne pepper — one night 
on going to bed, and follow the instructions given 
heretofore. Eat perfect food. (See Food and 
General Instructions.) 



102 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Constipation, 



Most all the foods eaten nowadays are mixtures 
prepared for the flavor, taste and pleasure one may 
enjoy in eating it, and no thought is given to the 
needs of the body, bowels, organs and brain, bones, 
nerves, leaders, etc. The cause of constipation is a 
lack of the bran that is in grain, and other foods. 1 
speak from experience. For months I was constipa- 
ted, and had no passages only by artificial means, 
pills, salts and other purgatives, and I suffered many 
times for months, causing piles and an inflamed rec- 
tum ; and as long as I lived on grease, butter, lard 
and hog meat, pies, cakes, jellies, preserves and white 
flour bread, I found no relief, yet doctored all the 
time. But when I made a change to perfect food I 
was relieved. The bran in the Graham flour cured 
me, and it will cure constipation in any one and 
drugs will not ; for you have to stop the cause, 
which is bad food. (See Perfect Food.) 



Continuance to Urinate. 



The cause is a derangement of the body, the nerves, 
bladder, and the pipe leading from the bladder is 
inflamed and irritated by the rotten matter. For a 
remedy, sweat the patient freely, remove all the rot- 
ten matter, bathe frequently, and eat only grains 
and watery vegetables, as they are best in this case. 
I have noticed on myself when I eat acid fruits my 
urine flows too freely, and I have a boy, who, while 
at the age of from three to eight years, whenever he 
ate several acid apples was very apt to wet in the bed 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 103 

at night. But this has other causes. The use of 
imperfect food causes a derangement of the whole 
system. Eat perfect food. (See Foods and Gen- 
eral Instructions. ) 



Worms. 



The causes are bad foods, sugars, etc., and, as 
there is nothing without a cause and nothing without 
a substance, so there is a cause for worms. They 
breed in the stomach from bad food. Stop the 
cause, sweat the patient, giving large quantities of 
hot water or hot tea to drink, and after this give a 
mild physic. I use senna tea, as it is mild, in all 
cases where I use a physic. Any other physic that 
is mild and causes little pain or sickness will do. 
Eat perfect food. (See Food and General Instruc- 
tions.) 



Mumps. 



Mumps are caused by inflammation, and it takes 
a material to produce this inflammation. Now, re- 
move that material and all the swelling and inflam- 
mation are gone. To do this take one-half gallon 
of wheat bran, and two ounces of ground mustard, 
and make a mush of the bran, putting the mustard 
in it, and take a cotton sack that will hold a gallon ; 
put the mustard in the sack while it is hot, and tie 
it up, and when the person is ready to go to bed 



104 THE HOME GUIDE. 

place this poultice to the jaws, and tie a strip of 
muslin over the head, and around the sack of mush 
or poultice. My wife has tried this, and the result 
was that all the swelling- and soreness were entirely 
gone in one night, and a permanent cure was ef- 
fected. (See My Wife's Experience.) 



Measles. 



Measles is a disease similar to smallpox, in one 
sense, as there is a large amount of corruption cast 
out. The remedy is ice or cold water taken inter- 
nally, and an ointment outside, made of cayenne 
pepper and sweet oil, or cocoa-nut oil, or cotton 
seed oil, — one pint of oil and one ounce of cayenne 
pepper, pulverized, or one-half pint of oil, and one- 
half ounce of pepper, — rubbing the whole human 
structure. This can be applied for chicken-pox, and 
in fact, is good in many diseases. It softens the 
skin, opens the pores, and lets out the rotten mat- 
ter and broken-down tissue, and that is what is nec- 
essary in many diseases. (See My Wife's Expe- 
rience . ) 



Asthma. 



Asthma is very easy to account for. The blood 
is full of rotten matter and broken-down tissue, 
and it flows to the wind-pipe and the bronchial 
tubes, and makes them sore, inflamed and swollen. 
This rotten matter fills it so that it is difficult to 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 105 

breathe, and the lungs fill with the same kind of 
material. 

Now, to remedy this swallow ten or twelve glass- 
fuls of pulverized ice, bathe in tepid water, putting 
in the bath a half tablespoonful of pulverized 
cayenne pepper, and after the bath rub dry, and 
then rub the cayenne pepper over the limbs ; for in- 
stance, put a little in the palm of your hand, drop 
a few drops of water on it, and rub your two hands 
together, and then rub the limbs thoroughly. Do 
this once a day, and eat perfect food, living cor- 
rectly, and let all the rotten matter and broken- 
down tissues out of your body. Eat perfect food. 



Fits, 



There is nothing without a cause and nothing 
without a substance or substances. Now find the 
cause for fits. (See description of Smallpox.) See 
how much rotten matter is cast out of a person by 
smallpox. From a full-grown person from ten to 
sixteen pounds of rotten matter are cast out. Now, 
here is the cause and substance. This material 
deranges the brain, the nerves, the muscles, and all 
the organs, and stops the machinery of the body 
from work. The whole machinery becomes clogged 
and can't work. Now, to remove this cause or sub- 
stance from the body, sweat the patient freely two 
or three times, rubbing the whole structure with an 
ointment made of oil and cayenne pepper, wash the 
body once a day with tepid water and soap after 
rubbing on the ointment. Keep the feet warm all 
the time, and eat only two meals each day, break- 
fast and dinner, and of perfect food. At night 
swallow four or five glassfuls of pulverized ice — the 



106 THE HOME GUIDE. 

more the better — have pure air and sunshine, and 
exercise. Contentment is a great help. Eight or 
nine hours' sleep at the regular time — say from eight 
or nine o'clock in the evening until five or six in the 
morning — is of great importance. This sleep is 
needed by everyone. Man steals his health and life 
away from himself when he deprives himself of sleep. 
Many people kill themselves this way. (See Per- 
fect Food and General Instructions.) 



Summer Complaint. 



Summer complaint is caused in many infants by 
impure milk from the mother's breast, which fer- 
ments in the child's stomach and bowels, causing 
many ailments. The remedy is, first the mother 
must eat perfect food, so as to have perfect blood 
herself, and perfect milk for the child. Bathe the 
child in warm water, rub its whole body with oint- 
ment, — oil and cayenne pepper of half strength, — 
and when the child is cramped or colicked dip a 
cloth into hot water, and after wringing it out place 
it on the stomach, change often, and place a jug 
filled with hot water at the feet, and keep the child 
warm . 

Diarrhoea is caused by bad food, and too much 
food in many instances, and in infants by bad milk 
made from bad food. All these diseases can be traced 
to bad food and other similar reasons. Now, stop 
the cause, and that is easy to do. A healthy mother 
and perfect food will do much towards remedying 
all manner of ailments in infants, and have much to do 
with the adults. The head of the family should 
know all about health and disease, so as to avoid all 
manner of diseases, and as there is nothing without 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 107 

a cause, and nothing without a substance, remove the 
substance and the cause is gone. Remove the sub- 
stance, and then the blood heals the wound, and re- 
pairs all the destruction, or heals over what is left. 
It will not rebuild lungs in full, but will heal over 
what is left undeeayed, and that is all that is needed 
to stop the destruction. 



Inflammatory Rheumatism. 



Cause — The pores get closed, the rotten matter 
is retained in the system instead of passing out from 
it through the skin. Inflammation and pain, more 
or less intense, is the certain result. The swelling 
stops the circulation of the blood, the veins and 
arteries become gorged, causing fever and sharp 
pains. 

Remedy. — Sweat freely, as directed in other parts 
of this work ; rub the entire body with ointment 
made of oil and cayenne pepper at night on going to 
bed. In the morning wash the body with tepid 
water and soap. Wipe dry with a well-warmed sheet 
covering the body, keeping the feet warm always. 
Eat perfect food, as to which see the article headed 
Perfect Food. (See General Instructions.) 



Cancer. 



Cause. — As there is nothing without a cause there 
is a cause for cancer. Finding there is no such 
thing as roots eating the flesh, I had to look else- 
where. The true cause is rotten or corrupt material 



108 THE HOME GUIDE. 

flowing to the place or spot where the cancer shows 
itself. This rots the flesh where it locates, and 
makes that spot the point of discharge. This is 
the cause in scrofula, consumption and in many 
other diseases, wherever this rotten matter comes 
to the surface. Not only do I state that this cor- 
rupt matter rots the flesh, but I will forfeit a thou- 
sand dollars to any " medical professor" who will 
show me a cancer's roots which really eats flesh. 

Remedy. — Sweat the body freely ; bathe the de- 
cayed spot with hot water, three or four hours at a 
time, then place a plaster made of Graham flour and 
cayenne pepper over the cancer, and let it remain 
there. Let the patient be dieted, eating perfect 
food and following the general instructions given 
elsewhere. On a small cancer, a salve made as di- 
rected for cuts, will be beneficial. Tt should be ap- 
plied after the hot water. 



Yellow Jaundice, 



Cause. — The system becomes filled with bile and 
filthiness. ( See description under Bile. ) The blood 
is charged with rotten matter, and distributes it in 
every direction through and over the skin. 

Remedy. — Take a sweat each day for two days, 
as named before, and diet the patient with the per- 
fect food elsewhere described. Keep the feet and 
hands warm, rub the ointment composed of oil and 
cayenne pepper all over the body, for two nights on 
£oin£ to bed. Wash it off in the morning with the 
tepid water and soap, rubbing dry with a warmed 
sheet or cloth. Rub the skin thoroughly, using 
plenty of friction. (See General Instructions.) 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS- 109 

Whooping Cough. 



Cause. — This is found in the fact that the system 
is full of rotten matter, which flowing into the lungs 
and windpipe, causes a sensation which brings on 
the cough. 

Remedy. — Sweat the patient freely, rub the oint- 
ment of oil and cayenne pepper on the patient for 
two nights on going to bed. Wash off in the morn- 
ing with tepid water and soap, rub dry with a warm 
sheet or cloth. Diet with perfect food. (See Gen- 
eral Instructions. ) 



Cholera Morbus, 



Cause. — Too much food in the stomach which the 
gastric juices can not digest. The blood leaves the 
limbs and rushes to the stomach, leaving the flesh 
and muscles to grow cold. Contraction naturally 
follows, and severe pains called cramps set in. The 
blood engorges the organs, the broken down tissue 
or decayed matter is carried back to them, causing 
inflammation in the stomach and internal organs. The 
broken-down tissue now becomes decayed or rotten 
matter, settling in different parts of the flesh, body, 
and head, rotting the flesh and causing pain, and 
this matter is so much fuel, producing heat or fever, 
as it i* commonly called, in the body. 

Remedy. — Place the limbs in hot water, and drink 
hot tea or hot water freely. When relief comes, — 
and it will come quickly, — fill two or three jugs with 
boiling water, place them in the bed which should be 
well warmed, put the patient in the bed, placing the 



110 THE HOME GUIDE, 

jags as near as he can bear them, give hot tea or hot 
water, and sweat the patient freely two or three 
hours. After sweating wash off with tepid water, 
wiping dry with a warm sheet or cloth. At night, 
on going to bed, rub with ointment of oil and cay- 
enne pepper, and let the ointment remain on him 
until morning, when patient should be well washed 
with tepid water and dried with warm sheet or cloth. 
Be careful about the food, as the stomach is very 
weak, and will be so for several days. (See Gen- 
eral Instructions.) 



Female Diseases. 



Female diseases are all caused by rotten matter 
and broken-down tissue. These can be removed, the 
same as in other diseases, entirely from the body. 

When there are from twelve to sixteen pounds of 
this putrid, corrupt material in the human structure, 
(see Small Pox and description), that material nat- 
urally and inevitably inflames the part or parts dis- 
eased. Now, to remove this, sweat freely, use the 
ointment before named, made of oil and cayenne 
pepper, freely every night ; put on some warm old 
clothing for the night. In the morning wash off 
the ointment with tepid water and soap, rubbing 
the skin hard until perfectly dry. Eat perfect 
food, breathe pure air, and sleep in a room where 
the sun shines. Let the sunshine come into the 
room as much as possible ; never mind about the 
carpet fading ; better that should fade than you. 
Dress with loose clothing, keep the feet and hands 
warm , the feet dry except when you bathe them , which 
should be often. Bathe the whole body frequently ; 
once a day is best, but by all means bathe twice a 
week. Walk freely, or work at something which 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. Ill 

culls into free use all the muscles of all the limbs. 
Exercise is a great curative. It causes millions of 
particles of broken-down tissue to be cast out of 
the body, and so frees it from corruption. In all 
womb complaints, and especially in whites, let the 
sufferer take pure rain water, blood warm, and use 
it with a syringe twice a day. This will always 
remove the corrupt matter, and soreness and in- 
flammation will disappear. Take a gallon of wheat 
bran, one teacupful of ground mustard, mix them 
into a stiff mush, which is to be placed in a sack of 
convenient size and shape. On going to bed place 
this sack, filled as stated, over the part affected, on 
the lower abdomen, for two hours. When taken 
off cover all the place where the sack has been with 
white flannel until morning, 



Ear Ache. 



The Cause. — As there is nothing without a cause, 
and nothing without a substance, so there is a cause 
for this. There is an accumulation of material 
affecting the organs of the ear and head, and this i* 
rotten matter and broken-down tissues carried there 
by the blood, decaying the organs of the head or 
rotting them, causing severe and intense pain. 

For a Remedy. — Sweat and bathe the person ; 
wash and wipe dry. Afterwards, and while sweat- 
ing the person, dip cloths in hot water and apply 
them over the affected ear, repeating this quite 
often. After this tie cloths around the ears to pro- 
tect them from the air. Use the ointment of oil 
and cayenne pepper one night, on going to bed, and 
follow the instructions given heretofore, and eat 
perfect food. (See Food for instructions, aud fol- 
low General Instructions. 



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Fainting. 



The Cause. — The blood flows to the stomach and 
brain ; they becomes engorged, a high temperature 
produces a sickening sensation. 

For a Remedy. — Place the limbs in hot water as 
soon as possible, give the person cold water or ice 
internally as soon as he revives. It is highly bene- 
ficial to give the patient a sweat, and let him eat but 
very little food for a day or two, letting the tem- 
perature be reduced. That can be easily done by 
eating but very little food, as food is the fuel and 
produces the beat. Bathe frequently in tepid water, 
and keep patient warm. (See Perfect Food for 
instructions and follow General Instructions.) 



Dandruff, 



The cause is, the material or broken-down ma- 
terial from the bod}^ and head is carried out through 
the pores of the skin of the head by the blood. It 
not being a disease, as is thought by many, but it 
is something that can not be stopped or prevented 
without death to the person, for this is as necessary 
as it is for a person to eat. This is only the waste 
material and broken-down tissue, and it has to be 
gotten rid of through the pores of the skin of the 
head, and so it becomes as necessary to wash and 
(-lean the head just as often as you would the body : 
wash the head frequently. In bathing the body 
notice how white the water looks after bathing ; this 
is broken-down tissue that has been cast out through 
the pores of the skin by the blood. It is folly and 



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a great mistake to use any patent remedies, or any 
other remedies, to try to cure or stop the dandruff 
of the head, for if this was done one could not live 
long. It would be similar to painting a person and 
closing the pores, and thus retaining this broken- 
down tissue. One would live but a very short time 
in this way. It is necessary to get rid of all this 
material, and it is cast off from the head as rapidly, 
or more rapidly, than from any other place. Wash 
it off and keep it clean is all that is necessary. Get 
rid of the hobby of thinking it a disease, as many 
patent medicine venders have made people believe, 
claiming that they had a remedy to stop the flow of 
dandruff . This is all folly ; money only is their 
object, no matter how they get it. 



Heartburn, 



Heartburn, as it is commonly called, is not heart- 
burn, but stomach-burn is the true name for itc 
Reader ! remember, when you have heartburn it 
is caused from improper food or material in the 
stomach, and so call it stomach-burn. The fuel 
taken into the stomach produces a high degree 
of heat in the stomach and it is the stomach-burn 
instead of heartburn. The heart has no means or 
outlet to throw this hot material up into your throat 
and mouth, as is the case when you have what you 
call heartburn ; but instead of the heart it is all in 
the stomach. The feet, hands, and limbs become 
cold, and the broken-down tissue of the body is car- 
ried back by the blood ; and as the blood is likely to 
flow to the stomach to aid and assist the stomach to 
carry this broken-down tissue, when it is carried 
to the stomach, it being fuel, helps to produce the 



114 THE HOME GUIDE. 

heat in the stomach. For a remedy, pat the hands 
and feet in hot water, drink hot tea made of some 
common herb, and when relief comes, bathe the per- 
son, wipe him dry, and be careful what he eats, let- 
ing him eat perfect food. (See Food for instruc- 
tions, and follow General Instructions.) 



Crick in the Back 



The cause of this is that the rotten matter and 
corruption or broken-down tissue is carried to this 
place, or spot, causing inflammation, swelling, hard- 
ening of the flesh, and a high temperature of heat, 
and when quickly put into action causes the crick, 
which is a sudden shock. For a remedy, sweat the 
person freely and use the ointment of oil and cayenne 
pepper, one night, on going to bed. Let the patient 
eat only perfect food. (See Food for instructions, 
and follow General Instructions.) 



Stitch in the Side. 



The cause of this is, the rotten matter and broken 
down tissue is carried to that place, or spot, and 
causes inflammation, swelling, and hardening of the 
flesh, and when moving is felt by a sudden shock. 
For a remedy, sweat the person freely at night, and 
on going to bed, use the ointment made of oil and 
cayenne pepper (see instruction given heretofore), 
and make a stiff mush of wheat bran and ground 
mustard as directed heretofore, place this over the 
spot affected on going to bed and bind it on, letting 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 115 

it remain until morning. Eat perfect food. (See 
Food for instruction, and General Instructions.) 



Cramps, 



The cause is, the blood leaving the muscles they 
become cold and contracted, and this is called cramp 
in the part affected. For a remedy, place them in 
hot water, as hot as the patient can bear, and after 
relief comes wipe them dry, and rub the ointment of 
oil and cayenne pepper on them. The cause of the 
blood leaving the limbs is from trouble in the stom- 
ach and internal organs. Remove this cause and the 
blood will flow freely to the limbs. This may be 
done by drinking hot tea, and applying hot blank- 
ets, dipped in hot water and wrung out, over the 
stomach. Cramps in the stomach are caused by 
taking too much food, or mixtures of foods, into 
the stomach. The blood thus leaves the limbs and 
flows into the stomach. The limbs may become 
cramped also. For a remedy, dip cloths into hot 
water, and wring them out, and place the cloths over 
the parts affected, and drink hot tea of some com- 
mon herb. Place the limbs in hot water, and if the 
patient is not able to sit up fill jugs with boiling 
water, and place them in bed close to the limbs of 
the patient, and also the outer extemities, having the 
water as hot as the patient can stand and so get up a 
free circulation of the blood. This circulation must 
be obtained, for whenever there is a trouble in the 
stomach the blood leaves the limbs and rushes to 
the stomach. To relieve the stomach be careful of 
food, eating but very little for several days as the 
stomach will be very weak and not able to digest 
much food. Eat perfect food. (See Food for in- 
structions, and see General Instructions.) 



116 THE HOME GUIDE . 

Softening of the Brain, 



This may occur in two or three different ways : 
One by not feeding the brain the right amount of 
phosphorus, and another by the flow of rotten mat- 
ter and broken-down tissue being carried to the brain 
by the blood and water that is retained in the sys- 
tem, similar to dropsy, and which causes the pores 
to become closed. The water so retained, and the 
rotten matter and broken-down tissue are carried 
back to the brain, decaying or rotting and softening 
the brain at the same time. The brain being in- 
flamed, swollen, and rotting, produces this trouble. 
For a remedy, sweat the person freely, and take 
cloths, and after dipping them in hot water, bind 
them around the head. Repeat this quite often and 
so keep the pores of the head open. After this is 
stopped bind some cloths around the head, to keep 
the air from coming in contact with it, so as to keep 
the pores open. Let the surplus of rotten matter 
and broken-down tissue and water escape through 
the pores of the skin of the head. At night use the 
ointment made of oil and cayenne pepper, as hereto- 
fore directed, for one or two nights, and bathe the 
patient freely. Eat perfect food ; food that has 
plenty of phosphorus in it, such as whole wheat 
ground, and oats made into Graham bread, or rolled 
wheat, or oat-meal porridge. This makes a good 
brain-food. (See General Instructions.) 



Vomiting. 



The cause is, the stomach becomes inflamed, and 
the human system is charged with rotten matter and 
broken-down tissue. This is retained in the human 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS, 117 

structure, and then a great amount of food is 
taken into the stomach which is not digested. The 
gall-bladder empties its gall into the stomach and 
produces a sickening sensation, and then for relief 
the stomach makes an effort to throw up what it con- 
tains. By vomiting it throws this off the stomach, 
and it partly relieves the stomach. This gall shows 
that the human structure is charged with rotten mat- 
ter aud corruption and broken-down tissue. For a 
remedy, sweat the person freely as heretofore in- 
structed ; take crushed ice internally, after the 
stomach becomes empty, as it will subdue heat, in- 
flammation, swelling, and soreness of the stomach 
quicker than any other one thing. If the patient is 
afraid of the ice give him hot water, or hot tea 
made of some common herb. Be very careful and 
let him eat but very little food for several days. 
Give about two meals a day — breakfast and dinner, 
only ice for supper, — and the patient will be greatly 
benefited. The ice keeps down heat or fever, and 
makes away with the soreness and pains, and gives 
more relief than any other one thing. (See Perfect 
Food, and General Instructions.) 



Sneezing. 



The cause is the outer extemities get cold, and 
the pores becoming closed, the broken-down tissue 
and rotten matter is retained in the body, and the 
blood carries this material to the nose, and all other 
parts of the body, and it oozes out through the skin 
of the nose. It decays the skir of the nose, causing 
a tickling sensation which makes one sneeze. For a 
remedy, sweat the person freely, as directed hereto- 
fore, bathing frequently, and eating perfect food. 
(See Food and General Instructions.) 



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Bad Breath, 



The cause is, where a person does not bathe fre- 
quently, the pores become clogged with the broken- 
down tissue forming into wax or glue combined with 
the external dirt. This material remains on the skin 
and clogs the pores and retains the broken-down tis- 
sue in the body, and the blood carries it back to the 
lungs. The lungs throw it out when the air is thrown 
out. The material comes in contact with the organs 
of smell, and to a person who has acute sensibilities 
of smell it is very offensive, as I know from the ex- 
periences I have had a number of times myself, 
standing close by people whose breaths were very 
offensive and smelled almost like a rotten carcass. 
If this is let run any length of time the person is lia- 
ble to have consumption as this corruption is likely to 
rot the lungs, or if it is carried to the head and flows 
to the front part of the head it is very likely to cause 
catarrh of the head, as catarrh may be produced 
in this way. As many people go weeks, months, aud 
some even go a year without a bath, this is frequent. 

For a remedy sweat the person freely as hereto- 
fore instructed, using the ointment made of oil and 
cayenne pepper for two or three nights on going to 
bed, and follow the other directions given, bathing 
the person once a week thereafter, without fail, and 
eat perfect food. (See Food and General Instruc- 
tions.) 



How to Cure a Sprain, 



If of a limb, bathe in hot water three or four 
hours, keeping the temperature up as high as the 
patient can stand, and take one gallon of wheat 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 119 

bran and a teaeupful of ground mustard, and make 
them into a stiff mush. Put the mush into a sack, 
and if it is an ankle or a wrist, put the hand or foot 
in the sack with the mush, drawing the mush up 
around the limbs and bind some other cloths around 
it. Do this on going to bed. In the morning wash 
the bran off, rubbing it with the ointment made of 
oil and cayenne pepper, so as to prevent the pores 
from closing, and thus taking cold in it. Be careful 
to keep it well protected and warm and dry, so the 
pores will not close, for if the pores should close, 
the broken-down tissue would remain, and flow to 
that spot or place, which would cause inflammation 
and soreness. Eat perfect food and bathe fre- 
quently. (See Food for instruction, and see Gen- 
eral Instructions.) 



Hoarseness. 



Cause. — One cause is the rotten matter and cor- 
ruption. Another is, that the broken-down tissue 
not being cast off through the pores of the skin, it 
is carried back to the lungs and bronchial tubes, 
wind-pipe and head by the blood flowing to those 
parts, laden with the corrupt matter. When the 
lung cells are filled up with this, expansion and con- 
traction are hindered, inflammation follows, the 
lungs and other organs swell, become sore and out 
of condition generally. 

Remedy. — Take plenty of crushed ice or cold 
water internally as soon as the stomach becomes 
empty of food. Bathe the feet, keep the hands and 
feet very warm, and bathe frequently in tepid water. 
Eat perfect food as given elsewhere, and follow 
General Instructions. 



120 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Colic. 



Cause. — Mixed food in the stomach which it can- 
not digest on account of foul gases formed there. 
The blood leaves the limbs, rushes to the stomach, 
which is the scene of the difficulty, thus rendering 
the flesh and muscles cold, and cramps follow. The 
blood becomes stagnant in the organs, causing them 
to be gorged and inflamed. 

Remedy. — Place the limbs in hot water. Then 
take a cloth folded in five or six thicknesses, put it 
into hot water, wring it out carefully, and place over 
the patient's stomach. Give hot water or hot tea to 
drink. Sweat the patient freely, and diet with per- 
fect food, as pei' description elsewhere. 



Swollen Limbs. 



Cause. — The pores are closed and thus the broken- 
down tissue, water and air, are retained. Putrifac- 
tion begins, and the foul watery fluid rotting the 
flesh causes severe pains. Swelling naturally fol- 
lows, which closes the veins, by pressure and en- 
gorgement, and the flow of blood is stopped. 

Remedy. — Place the limb in a tub of w 7 ater, let- 
ting it remain there about three hours, during which 
the water should be continually kept as hot as it can 
be borne by the patient. After this bathing, rub 
the limb well with oil and cayenne pepper ointment. 
The cure will be quickened if the patient sweats 
freely after bathing, Only perfect food should be 
eaten. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 121 

White Swelling, 



Cause. — Two-fold. First, from the use of too much 
grease, fatty material is rotting in the system ; 
second, the broken-down or vitiated tissue not being 
cast out through the pores of the skin it is carried 
back by the blood and settles at the spot affected. 
Inflammation and swelling result from this, as well 
as decay of the bone, and intense pain is felt. 
Sometimes a bruise or other injury locates the exact 
spot where the rotten matter seems chiefly to settle 
or lodge. 

Remedy. — Sweat the patient thoroughly and apply 
a poultice made of wheat bran and mustard imme- 
diately over the part affected. See instructions 
elsewhere as to how to make the poultice. Use 
ointment of oil and cayenne pepper all over the 
body three or four nights. Wash nicely in the 
morning with tepid water and soap. Dry thoroughly 
with warm cloth. Eat perfect food and follow Gen- 
eral Instructions. 



Spinal Affections, 



Cause. — The pores being closed, the rotten matter 
which should be thrown off through them is kept in 
the body, and by the blood's flow is carried back to 
the spinal column and marrow of the spinal column 
where it settles, causing inflammation and swelling. 
It rots the marrow and the muscles, causing pain, 
with more or less fever and affection of the brain. 

Remedy. — Sweat the entire body as before set 
forth. After sweating, wash the body with tepid 
water, drying thoroughly with warm sheet or cloth. 



122 THE HOME GUIDE. 

For two or three nights before going to bed rub the 
entire body well with ointment of oil and cayenne 
pepper, which should be washed off in the morning 
with warm water and soap. After each washing dry 
the skin thoroughly by rubbing with a sheet or large 
cloth, covering the body so as to protect it from 
drafts of cold air. Especial care should be taken 
to avoid all food of a greasy nature. General In- 
structions and Perfect Food should be consulted for 
further details. 



Meningitis. 



Cause. — The pores of the skin being closed, the 
rotten matter and vitiated broken-down tissue is 
carried back into the body by the blood. It settles 
all over the human structure generally, and exerts 
its corrupting, decaying influence wherever it lodges. 
Unnatural heat, with the head seriously affected, are 
the results. 

Eemedy. — Sweat freely, as before described. Use 
the cayenne pepper and oil ointment by rubbing it 
over the body each night for three or four nights. 
Tepid water and soap for a thorough wash in the 
morning.* Wipe dry with warmed sheet, covering the 
body. Use only Perfect Food and follow General 
Instructions. 



Scarlatina. 



Cause. —The pores becoming closed, the rotten 
matter in the system can not pass out through them, 
and remaining in the body it is carried back by the 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 123 

blood to all parts, causing inflammation, sometimes 
swelling, accompanied with pains wherever it settles 
in the various organs as well as the flesh generally. 
Frequently the head is seriously affected. 

Remedy. — Sweat the entire body freely, as before 
directed. After this, wash well with tepid water, 
using a warmed sheet or large cloth thrown around 
the bodv to drv with. On o-oino- to bed for three 
or four nights use ointment of cayenne pepper and 
oil, washing it off nicely in the morning with tepid 
water and soap, being careful to wipe the skin thor- 
oughly dry, while the patient is protected from cold 
air or draft by the sheet thrown around him. Give 
perfect food and follow General Instructions given 
elsewhere. 



St. Anthony's Dance, 



Cause. — Nervous prostration and inflammation 
of the brain, brought on bv the rotten matter'and 
broken-down tissue remaining in the sj^stem, it being 
impossible for them to escape through the closed 
pores of the skin. The blood being loaded with 
this matter, carries it back to the nerves and the 
brain, causing inflammation to these and the mus- 
cles, also affecting the brain to an extent which pro- 
duces various degrees of unconsciousness in the suf- 
ferer as to his or her actions. The mind seems to 
run on in an aimless way without any definite object, 
while the nerves, etc., ure deranged so as^to be be- 
yond control. Involuntary jerks and twitchings are 
usually seen. 

Remedy. — Remove the cause by sweating freely. 
Use the ointment of oil and cayenne pepper as di- 
rected in other cases, following the hints given 
under Perfect Food and General Instructions. 



124 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Neuralgia. 



Cause. — The pores are closed, very often by ex- 
posure to a draft through an open window or door. 
The rotten matter and broken-down tissue thus being 
retained in the body instead of thrown off from and 
out of it, the blood carries it back to the head or 
jaw, for example, affecting the nerves of the teeth 
and jaw and often, by sympathy, those of the entire 
face and head. This lodgment of decayed matter 
rots the nerve, causing inflammation and pain. 

Kemedy. — Sweat the person freely, using the oil 
and cayenne pepper ointment as before directed. 
As to food and other details of treatment see Gen- 
eral Instructions. 



Dyspepsia, 



It is caused in different ways. First, the use of 
grease, fats and salt. Second, too much acid. 
Third, too much tea and coffee. Fourth, by beer 
nnd liquors. Fifth, the accumulation of broken- 
down tissue and rotten matter. 

We will look at these in the order named. First, 
grease, fats, and salts produce a great amount of 
heat in the stomach, causing a flow of rotten matter 
to it, decaying its muscles, swelling and inflaming its 
lining or membranes, and producing the high degree 
of temperature called fever. Second, by too great 
an amount of acid in the stomach, the muscles are 
dissolved, their substance disintegrated, and natural 
debility, along with fever, heat and inflammation, is 
sure to follow. Third, tea and coffee belong to that 
class of stimulants which produce irritation. Acting 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 125 

in and upon the stomach, this irritation brings on an 
excessive flow of blood to the stomach, where it 
stagnates and leaves its load of decayed tissue and 
foul matter, and all this surely aggravates the dis 
ease. Fourth, liquors, being largely composed of 
carbon, are equal to grease in producing excessive 
heat, thus exciting a flow of blood laden with the 
broken-down tissue, etc., to the stomach already in. 
flamed and in a feverish state. At this very point 
we have the birth-place of many other diseases, for 
instance, typhoid and other forms of fever. The 
blood, leaving the limbs, rushes to the stomach to 
aid and assist it in its distress — following the univer- 
sal law that the blood always flows to an oppressed 
or injured part or organ of the body. Fifth, by 
permitting the limbs to become cold, the pores are 
closed up, hence the broken-down tissue, and rotten 
matter remain in the system and is distributed and 
deposited in the lungs, head, stomach, and other 
organs, decaying those parts, as well as the flesh 
generally. Pain, with excessive heat, commonly 
called fever, follows, along with general debility and 
discomfort. 

Remedy. — Quit the cause, whether it be one of 
the five causes, or two or more combined. Sweat 
the body as previously directed. Use the oil and 
cayenne pepper ointment for three or four nights on 
going to bed. As to food, see Perfect Food. Gen- 
eral Instructions, given elsewhere, should be followed. 



Sciatic Pains, 



Cause. — The pores being closed the broken-down 
tissue and rotten matter remain in the body. The 
blood takes them up, carries them back to the 



126 THE HOME GUIDE. 

various parts affected where the foul matter is de- 
posited. This causes inflammation, swelling, rotting 
of the tissues of the muscles, decays even the mar- 
row in the bones, all accompanied by sharp pains. 

Eemedy. — Sweat the patient freely, as shown 
heretofore. Rub well with the ointment made of 
cayenne pepper and oil. Follow General Instruc- 
tions and description of Perfect Food elsewhere 



Diphtheria. 



Cause. — The closing up of the pores of the skin 
prevents the carrying off of the broken-down tissue. 
It is, therefore, of necessity borne back in upon 
various parts of the body, more especially the throat, 
windpipe and lungs, where it becomes a cause of de- 
cay in the skin and membranes. Inflammation, 
swelling and irritation now create itching or tend- 
ency to cough, accompanied by choking. 

Remedy. — Sweat the entire body freely. But if 
the patient is a small child, take a blanket made wet 
in warm water, wrap around the child and place him 
in bed, well covered up, for twenty minutes. Then 
have ready a warmed sheet, rub the child thoroughly 
with it, at the same time giving plenty of some hot 
tea made of any common herb, provided the child is 
old enough to drink it. When put to bed, fill a jug 
with boiling water and place it at the patient's feet. 
Give plenty of water or tea to drink. For at least 
several days use only perfect food, and follow Gen- 
eral Instructions. 



CURE WITHOUT DKUGS. 127 

Internal Cancer. 



Cause. — The broken-down tissue being unable to 
pass out through the closed pores of the skin it be- 
comes rotten matter. It is carried back by the blood 
to some particular spot where it creates swelling, 
inflammation, and soreness, and rots the flesh. 

Remedy. — Open the pores at once by external 
heat and sweating freely, as before described. Take 
an abundance of ice internally. Ice, by the way 9 
will subdue heat, and inflammation, more rapidly 
than any other one thing that can be used. Rub the 
entire body, before going to bed, with the oint- 
ment of oil and cayenne pepper, wash the person 
thoroughly in the morning with warm water and 
soap. The body should be carefully dried with a 
warmed sheet or cloth of sufficient size to cover the 
person while being dried, so as to prevent the bad 
effects of a current of air upon it while the pores 
are open. Great care should be taken as to food. 
Let it contain no grease or fat ; Graham flour, oat- 
meal porridge, fruits with little acid in them, watery 
vegetables raw if possible, should be the diet. Ex- 
ercise in the open air and take as much sunshine as 
possible. Let the sunlight into the apartments, es- 
pecially the sleeping room. (See General Instruc- 
tions.) 



Wen, 



The pores being closed, the broken-down tissue 
necessarily remains in the body, together with foul 
air, inflating or puffing the part, and the formation 
of the sack and hardening of the flesh follows. 



128 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Remedy. — Sweat the whole body freely. Make 
a poultice of mustard and wheat bran, apply it to 
the wen for three or four nights. (See description 
of the poultice elsewhere.) In the daytime, for six 
or eight days, keep upon the wen a cloth made wet 
with ointment of oil and cayenne pepper. No grease 
or fat should be eaten, and General Instructions 
found elsewhere are to be the guide . 



Deafness, 



Cause. — The pores being closed up, preventing 
the waste or broken-down tissue from passing off 
through them as it should do, it is carried back by 
the blood to the head and internal organs of the 
ears, where it rots, thereby inflaming the most deli- 
cate parts, causing them to swell and preventing 
their action. 

Remedy. — Where these organs are not entirely 
gone or destroyed, they can be brought into use 
again by sweating the person freely, thus getting rid 
of the corruption which is the cause of the trouble. 
The ointment of cayenne pepper and oil should be 
used externally. The external parts should at the 
same time be kept warm, as well as the hands and 
feet. General Instructions should be followedo 



Blurred or Dim Sight. 



Cause. — The broken-down tissue is retained in 
the system on account of the pores through which it 
should escape being closed up. This matter being 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 129 

borne by the blood in its circulation, affects the pupil 
of the eye, inflames the eye itself by befouling the 
eye-water, the membrane is rotted, more or less, and 
the sight wholly or partially destroyed. 

Remedy. — Where the sight is not entirely gone, 
sweat the person freely — the entire body and limbs, 
as before described. The oil and cayenne pepper 
ointment should be freely used also on the entire 
person, and washed off each morning with soap and 
tepid water, wiping dry with a warm cloth or sheet. 
Besides following General Instructions found in 
another place, the patient should eat only perfect 
food (which see), and by all means must have exer- 
cise in the open air. Let him breathe pure fresh 
air by day and by night, with all the sunshine pos- 
sible. 



Ulcers, 



These are caused by retention in the system of 
broken-down tissue and rotten matter. The blood 
carries these to the particular spot, rotting it, and 
causing fever or excess of heat, inflammation and 
intense irritation. 

Remedy. — First sweat the whole person freely, 
as already directed elsewhere. On the sore itself 
place a poultice made of wheat bran and ground 
mustard. The ointment of cayenne pepper and oil 
should be freely rubbed on the body and limbs. 
My General Instructions, found in another place, 
should be followed as to diet and bathing 



130 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Hemorrhage of the Lungs, 



What is commonly called this takes place after 
the lungs are more or less completely destroyed or 
decayed. When the pores become closed the broken- 
down tissue and rotteu matter are carried back by 
the blood to the lungs. This rots the lungs and the 
membranous lining of the nose, as well as the ends 
of the numerous small silken or silk-like veins in the 
lungs. The blood flows out through these little veins 
into the air-cells of the lungs, causing in them an 
oppressive sensation. The iungs make an effort by 
coughing to throw up the blood, and so we have 
what is called hemorrhage. By some it is styled 
bleeding of the lungs, but it is self-evident that there 
would be no blood coming from the lungs unless 
the veins and arteries were affected and rotted off. 

Kemedy. — First, as soon as the stomach is empty, 
take an abundance of ice internally. Externally, 
use the ointment of oil and cayenne pepper, which 
should be made as strong with the pepper as the pa- 
tient can bear, as it is all important to get the outer 
extremeties very hot, the pores open, and to let the 
rotten matter and broken-down tissue pass off through 
the skin. As to using the ointment consult instruc- 
tions elsewhere. But very little food should be 
eaten for several days, not more than two meals, 
breakfast and dinner, each day. For supper swal- 
low several tumblers of crushed ice, which will re- 
duce the heat in the lungs. Cooling the lungs in this 
way contracts all the small, silk-like veins and the 
arteries, and so stops the flow of blood. This has 
been tried repeatedly, and in every case with good 
results. The instructions given as to consumption 
should be followed. Perfect food, as described 
under that head, is to be eaten. The General In- 
structions should also be consulted. 



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Torpid, or Inactive Liver. 



Cause. — The rotten matter and broken-down tis- 
sue is retained in the human structure. This of 
course affects the liver, but no more jso than the 
other parts of the body. We find that the smallpox 
cures a torpid liver. That is to say, if a person whose 
liver is torpid has the smallpox the liver-trouble dis- 
appears in company with the other disease. Here is 
the explanation : the smallpox discharges from every 
part of the human structure, from the crown of the 
head to the soles of the feet, a large amount of cor- 
rupt matter. Certainly then the person is affected 
to that extent, namely, from head to foot. While 
recovery from the smallpox is going on, the liver 
gets into proper working order, bat there is no sign 
whatever of any special discharge from it any more 
than from all other parts. 

Remedy. — Sweat the patient freely. See the in- 
structions before given. Use the ointment of oil 
and cayenne pepper at night on going to bed, for 
two or three nights. Consult directions elsewhere as 
to ointment. Eat perfect food as already described. 



Sleeplessness, 



I shall name five causes for this, any one of 
which, or two or more combined, may be at work. 
First, the use of too strong coffee ; second, use of 
strong tea; third, use of liquors or beer; fourth, 
use of fats and grease in food ; fifth, use of sugar, 
molasses and all kinds of confectionery. In short, 
anything, whatever its name, that produces or is in 



132 THE HOME GUIDE. 

itself the seed, essence or substance of disease, must 
affect the brain, and so will cause restlessness and 
dreaming at night. Or, in other words, whatever 
disturbs the brain and nerves will prevent sleep. 
My own experience of years leads me to speak very 
positively here. As will be seen fully explained in 
various parts of this work, any one of these articles 
above named will bring on a condition of the human 
body in which the brain, the great nerve center, and 
all the nerves themselves are deranged and inflamed. 
Remedy. — Sweat the person freely. Frequent 
baths should be taken as elsewhere described. Eat 
sparingly for eight or ten days, taking but two meals 
each day, breakfast and dinner. On going to bed, 
take a supper of crushed ice. Let that one be the 
heartiest meal of the day. Keep the feet warm and 
eat only perfect food as laid down under that title. 
Follow General Instructions. 



Skin Diseases in General. 



The universal cause of diseases of this class is the 
body becoming charged with rotten matter and brok- 
en-down tissue, which being carried by the blood out 
to the skin, produces in the skin, soreness, inflam- 
mation and decay. 

Remedy. — The first thing is to sweat the patient 
freely. For this full directions are laid down else- 
where. Second, use the ointment composed of oil 
and cayenne pepper. The mode of its use has been 
already given. Third, only the perfect food should 
be eaten. Under that head a description of it will 
be seen. The General Instructions will guide as to 
other things. 






CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 133 

Rotten Matter. 



Indianapolis, Ind., November 27, 1888. 

I have frequently noticed, in the last fifteen or 
tweutv days, when walking out, the rotten matter 
which people had spit up on the street. A number 
of times I found, by examination, that this matter 
on the sidewalks contained considerable blood. I 
now ask, What is this material? Where does it come 
from? Of what is it made? 

A person who throws up blood must have affected 
lungs, windpipe, bronchial tubes, or throat. Wher- 
ever the blood comes from the membrane is decayed 
by the flow of this rotten material to the place or 
spot. This also decays the skin and the ends of 
the silk-like veins there. The high temperature, or 
inflammation, which results, expands the silken veins, 
through which the blood will flow yet more freely 
when it is made thinner by the heat. Persons in 
this condition are in a dangerous stage, either of 
consumption, bronchial affection, sore throat, or 
catarrh of the head. 

Again I ask, What is all this material, and where 
does it come from ? No physician has yet been able 
to give me an intelligent answer. The true and only 
answer is this : It is made out of the fats, grease, 
sugar, molasses and salt which the people consume. 

Let the reader observe it for himself. Notice 
the large amount of such matter people throw off 
from their lungs and heads when they have bad 
colds. But what is a bad cold? Simply this : The 
pores are closed and the rotten matter and broken- 
down tissue are retained in the body. When this 
stagnant material is carried to the head and other 
organs it causes inflammation or the excessive heat 
called fever, and when from this the lun^s become 



134 THE HOME GUIDE. 

so far decayed or rotted that they will bleed, it can 
be called hemorrhage of the lungs. 

I know there must be a large number of people 
who are in some stage or other of this critical condi- 
tion. I know it, and any thinking, unprejudiced 
man ought to know it from what the writer has seen 
even in the last twenty days. I should be fright- 
ened if I were to spit up any such matter containing 
blood, as above described. 

Remedy. — Sweat the patient freely. Bathe often 
so as to open the pores thoroughly. Use the oint- 
ment of oil and cayenne pepper as elsewhere di- 
rected. Eat perfect food and follow General Instruc- 
tions, and see also under proper heading as to heat 
and water. 



Disinfectants, 



Many people, including many physicians, place a 
great deal of confidence in disinfectants. Some have 
one hobby, some another. Many use sulphur, burn- 
ing it for instance, in a room after a disease or a 
death. This is worse than an utter absurdity. Burn- 
ing sulphur and breathing it into the lungs of man, 
insect or beast, is sure death to either. 

After finding that there is nothing in the air to be 
killed, that theories of germs and parasites and the 
like are humbugs, I start out to ascertain what are 
really the seeds of disease. I find there is nothing 
to be killed, but to be removed by thorough washing, 
sunlight, and pure air. These will do all that is 
needed in the way of getting rid of the seeds of dis- 
ease. In Memphis, Tenn., (who does not know its 
terribly sad history?) I had conversation with a num- 






CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 135 

ber of citizens as to disinfectants. Tbe general ver- 
dict was that they had done more harm than good, 
and I fully agree with it. Tar and resin have many 
times been used there by burning, as disinfectants, 
but the opinion of most of those with whom I talked 
was that these things are about as injurious as burnt 
sulphur, filling the lungs with what is equally bad. 
Many people testified positively that harm was the 
result, when, during the yellow fever epidemic, in 
1878, these things were very largely used. 

I am fully satisfied that the best w T ay to get rid of 
the seed or seeds of disease is to wash everything 
with clean water, ventilating the house and letting 
in all the sunshine possible. This certainly seems a 
surer way to purify than smoking. Smoke contains 
that, which, lodged in the lungs, must produce harm 
and not benefit. Away with such foul, smoky ideas ! 



Sunstroke 



Cause. — By the use of liquor, beer and fatty sub- 
stances, the stomach is inflamed and irritated. This 
causes the high degree of internal heat always ob- 
servable in such cases. The external heat is caused 
by the sun raising the temperature of the blood to 
such an extent that inflammation of the brain and 
nerves, and a shock to both, follow. 

Remedy. — Use external heat in the form of hot 
water bath, or put the limbs in hot water, followed 
by rubbing on the ointment of oil and cayenne pep- 
per. Internally give ice if the stomach is empty ; 
but if the stomach is full of food, it is better to use 
hot water or hot tea as a drink, for the reason that 
ice on a full stomach is apt to cause congestion, and 



136 THE HOME GUIDE. 

stops digestion, as well as causes the blood to flow 
from out of the limbs to the body. For these 
reasons it must not be given in any disease upon a 
stomach which is not empty. By warming the 
stomach we aid it to make way with the food b}^ 
digestion, which lets the blood flow back again to 
the extremities and so producing an even, healthy 
circulation. Therefore, in cases where food is on 
the stomach, give hot drink instead of ice. When 
ice is given the pulverized form will be found best. 
Be careful as to the food after the person begins 
to recover from sunstroke. Perfect food as directed, 
should be used. (See under that heading, also 
under General Instructions.) Frequent bathing, to 
keep the pores open, will be beneficial, 



Drowning, 



In this form of accident the outer extemities being 
chilled the pores immediately close, the circulation 
of the blood stops, and breathing ceases, — actually 
or apparently. 

Treatment. -—Warm the extremities, open the 
pores, and in this way start the circulation. When 
the blood begins to circulate breathing also will 
begin. Wet two or three blankets in water as hot 
as a person can bear. W r ring them out slightly, strip 
the person, if clothed, and wrap the blankets around 
and over the body. Repeat this frequently. An- 
other remedy is to prepare a bath in a barrel or 
bath-tub, with the water as hot as a person can bear. 
Place the person in it, rubbing him briskly and mov- 
ing the limbs back and forth vigorously so as to cause 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS 137 

motion, and by it, circulation. Breathing will speed- 
ily follow. This process of restoration may be made 
still plainer by the following simple story of 

THE DOG THAT WOULD n't DROWN 

One hot day in August, a boy was told by his 
mother to drown their worthless dog. Nothing loth 
to carry out such orders, he threw the dog, properly 
weighted with a brick, into the deepest hole in the 
creek. After the dog's struggles were all over the 
boy dragged out the body, laid it on a large, flat rock 
upon the shore and then, boy-like, went away fish- 
ing, with such a heartful of joy as only an obedi- 
ent son can have. Coming home to supper, after 
fishing all the afternoon, his mother said to him, 
44 Did you drown the dog?" "Yes'm, I did; he's 
drownded dead." "No, my tender-hearted chicken," 
said the mother, "you never drowned him at all." 
But the boy, conscious of having done his duty, de- 
clared that he had not only drowned the beast, but 
had left him lying dead on the big rock. And so, as 
facts are the best arguments, she took her son back 
of the house, and behold ! there laid the dog," sleep 
ing soundly as if nothing had happened. But boys, 
like men, 

" Convinced against their will, 
Are of the same opinion still; " 

and so our hero formed a plan for the following day. 
With two other boys, equally zealous with himself 
in studying the wonders of animal life, he caught two 
cats, took them to the creek-hole, tied them up in a 
sack, loaded it with a stone, and pitched the whole 
business into the deepest water. After twenty min- 
utes they took out the dead bodies, laid them out on 
the big flat rock, and sat down to watch. Now, luck 
had not left the poor cats if life had. The August 
sun had been bringing that rock to almost blistering 



138 THE HOME GUIDE. 

heat, and in half an hour returning life was seen in 
yawns and twitchings of the limbs ; nor did another 
thirty minutes pass before the cats were walking 
away unharmed. Our young friend who saw it all, 
ran home, told his mother the wonderful history, and 
then they both understood just what I want my 
readers to know, namely, that external heat, and 
enough of it, if applied to a person apparently dead 
from drowning within twenty or thirty minutes after 
the accident, will restore life, just as the heat of the 
big rock, hot itself and reflecting heat, had revived 
the drowned dog and cats. To be accurate : as long 
as there is internal heat left, as long as the blood is 
warm, restoration may be had, because it is yet pos- 
sible to get up a circulation of the blood, and that 
will be speedily followed by breathing. The knowl- 
edge of these things would, if put into practice, save 
many lives now lost not only by drowning, but by 
numerous diseases also. 



Salt Rheum. 



Cause. — Rotten matter and corruption, mixed 
perhaps, with more or less salt, are retained in the 
system instead of being cast out of it. Wherever 
this matter settles or flows, either externally or in- 
ternally, it causes flesh and skin to decay, as well as 
irritation, inflammation and that excess of heat called 
fever . 

Remedy. — Sweat the patient freely as heretofore 
directed. Use ointment of oil and cayenne pepper 
as elsewhere described, and in general follow the 
same rules given for other diseases. Let the patient 
eat perfect food. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 139 

Ringworm. 



Cause. — The rotten matter, or corruption, and 
broken-down tissue are carried to that particular 
place or spot, decaying the skin and flesh, causing 
inflammation, swelling and pain. 

Remedy. — Sweat the entire human body ; use the 
previously described ointment made of oil and cay- 
enne pepper. Make a mush or poultice of wheat 
bran and ground mustard, apply it to the spot on 
going to bed, and let it remain until morning. Wet 
a piece of cotton flannel with the above ointment of 
oil and pepper, apply it to the spot and bind a dry 
cloth around it to hold it there, letting it remain 
there for a day and night. Then apply the wheat 
bran and mustard again for a night, and so on, until 
inflammation and swelling disappear. Bathe the 
whole body frequently. Diet by eating perfect 
food. (See further under Food and General In- 
structions.) 



Pimples and Spots on the Skin, 



These are caused by rotten and broken-down tissue 
not being properly exuded and thrown off by the 
pores of the skin. It forms pimples, and, in some 
cases, little sores upon the face, sometimes upon the 
body and limbs, to which latter the corruption is 
carried by the blood and deposited between the sec- 
ond and third skin, settling under the outer skin, 
causing spots, which are frequently seen also on the 
face and hands. 



140 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Remedy. — For pimples and sores, sweat the whole 
human structure, as before directed. Use the oint- 
ment of oil and cayenne pepper as described else- 
where. At ni^ht on ^oin^ to bed, wet some cloths 
with the ointment of oil and pepper, lay them on the 
face, covering the pimples. Wash it off in the 
morning. Still another method, which has been 
found very good, is to apply a wheat bran and mus- 
tard poultice, as directed elsewhere, instead of the 
oil and pepper. It should be put on the face on go- 
ing to bed. In fact, any way is good by which the 
face is kept both moist and hot, so that the pores 
are opened to permit the corrupt matter to pass off. 
On the other hand, nothing is of any real benefit 
which does not do this. In whatever way external 
application is made, the diet should be according 
to rules to be found under Perfect Food, and General 
Instructions followed. 



Sugar and Other Seeds of Diseases, 



First as to su^ar. Doctors orenerallv advise the 
eating of sugar. Yet, as every one knows, or ought 
to know, all kinds of grain, vegetables, fruits and 
nuts contain exactly the proportion of sugar which 
our systems actually need. Why then should we 
take artificial or manufactured sugar any more than 
we should give it to our domestic animals? They 
thrive without it, and so should we much better than 
we do. Again, if history be at all true and reliable, 
there were centuries in which people had no raw 
sugar. It is a comparatively recent invention of 
man, and not a gift of his Creator at all. 



, 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 141 

I will now give a list of the seeds of disease : 
Liquor, wine, beer, soda-water, mineral-water, all 
preparations or drugs, patent medicines, fat pork, 
lard, butter of all kinds, sugar, candies and all con- 
fectionery, pickles, preserves, jellies, slaws, spices, 
pepper, salt, pies, cakes, puddings and pastry gen- 
erally, white flour, tobacco, cigars, impurity in 
water, foul air in rooms, impurity from decaying 
carcasses and such like things. 

But do you hold up your hands in horror and de- 
mand, " What may I eat — I can't afford to starve?" 
Well, kind friend, I can find one hundred delicious 
things to eat among the different grains, twenty 
kinds of vegetables, twenty kinds of fruits, twenty 
kinds of nuts, twenty kinds of meats, twenty kinds 
of fish, and I might lengthen the list by oysters, 
eggs and many other things besides. What more 
do you want — the whole earth for your stomach? 
Won't you try reason, at least for one week? Go 
through the markets of New 7 York, Boston, Chicago, 
Indianapolis, St. Louis or Cincinnati, or of many 
other places. You will see in any one of them a 
profusion of various kinds of food which do not 
come within the list of what is above condemned. 
You will find scores and hundreds of things which 
will do you good and not harm ; will bestow health 
and not beget disease. 



Proud Flesh, 



In cuts, or bruises, "proud flesh" is caused by 
a flow of rotten, corrupt broken-down tissue to the 
place of the injury, causing inflammation, and puff- 
ing up of the flesh and skin. 



142 . THE HOME GUIDE. 

My experience has shown me two ways by which 
all this can be remedied. First, bathe the hand for 
example, in hot water for three hours, keeping the 
water as hot all the time as the person can bear it. 
At the end of three hours the hand and fingers will 
be smaller than those of the other arm, and will be 
in appearance like those of a woman who has been 
washing all day in hot water, shriveled and perfectly 
clean. A second method is to make a mush of wheat 
bran and ground mustard, and put it into a sack. 
Place the foot or hand into the mush while warm, 
wrap it up well and go to bed. In from four to six 
hours the place will be nicely cleansed of matter and 
no swelling left. This latter is also an excellent rem- 
edy for felons, bruises, and stone-bruises. ( See fur- 
ther under The True Art of Healing and Cuts.) 



My Wife's Experience, 



CATARRH OF THE HEAD, 

She was affected about two years, losing the sense 
of smell for at least two months. She was ailing 
badly with cold hands and feet, and severe pains in 
her head. I advised her several times to go to La- 
Fayette to the Hygienical Institute. She did not go. 
Then I prevailed on her to let me doctor her at home 
without drugs. She would not do so, and grew 
worse from week to week until she got almost bed- 
fast. One morning she did not eat any breakfast. 
I felt somewhat alarmed about her condition, but I 
went to my store not knowing what her plans were. 
When I returned at noon and stepped into the sit- 



CUKE WITHOUT DRUGS, 143 

ting room she was lying on the lounge. I felt very 
had over it when I tirst stepped into the room, being 
very much alarmed, and I was very much affected 
and feared that she had taken down bed-fast. I 
took a chair beside the lounge and asked her what 
the trouble was. A smile ran over her face, then 
she began to tell what her plans were, " and how she 
executed her plans." She had sent for an attend- 
ant the day previous, to wait on her and to assist her 
in her efforts to relieve herself of her trouble. First, 
she had a tub of hot water prepared for a foot-bath, 
and a bucket of hot water for her arms, she drink- 

ins: water as hot as she could bear it, and with a 

it? ' 

comfort wrapped around her, and sitting close by 
the tire until the sweat began to flow, then she had 
the lounge prepared with a jug of hot water to her 
feet when she went to bed, still drinking hot water 
She had a piece of white woolen flannel dipped in 
hot water, wrung out and covered the whole stom- 
ach and chest and a dry piece of white woolen flan- 
nel placed over that, drinking hot water, and sweat- 
ing herself freely. She began at eight o'clock in 
the morning, and by nine o'clock in the morning she 
told me she blew large quantities of green rotten 
matter from her head. After the rotten matter was 
blown out she complained very much of the cold air 
coming in contact where the rotten matter came 
from. She said it was very sensitive when cold air 
came in contact with the sore parts, and seemed as 
though the whole front part of her head was hollow, 
and complained of it very much for several days — 
even had to keep her nose partly protected so as the 
cold air would keep from coming in contact with the 
sore part where the rotten matter came from. She, 
commenced improving, and recovered and never has 
had any catarrh since that time, as we have lived 
hygienically for several years ; and it has been a great 
benefit to all of my family. 



144 THE HOME GUIDE. 

MUMPS. 

My wife's experience with Annie Kersey: My 
daughter having the mumps, quit school at noon, 
her jaws badly swollen, and very sore. My wife 
took about a gallon of wheat bran and a teacupful 
of ground mustard, made it into a stiff poultice, put 
it into a sack, placed it on the jaw, and bound it on 
so as to remain there, put Annie in bed, and kept the 
mush there all night taking it off the next morning. 
The swelling and soreness were all gone. She went 
back to school next morning, and that was the last of 
the mumps. 



EXPERIENCE WITH DESSEY KERSEY. 

She let an iron fall on the instep of her foot ; it 
became swollen and inflamed, and the second even- 
ing it was so badly swollen she could not walk. My 
wife took about a gallon of wheat bran and a tea- 
cupful of ground mustard, and made it into a stiff 
mush. She put the mush in a sack and put her foot 
inside of the sack in the mush, then drawing the 
mush up around the limb somewhat, wrapped a piece 
of quilt around the sack, placed her in bed and let 
it remain there all ni^ht. The next morning she 
took her foot out of the sack, washing the bran off. 
The swelling had all disappeared so she could get 
her shoe on and wear it. That entirely cured it. 



EXPERIENCE WITH MAY KERSEY. 

My wife doctoring her for the measles : She quit 
school one day at noon and came home sick. My 
wife put her to bed, right by a window where the sun 
shone in, put the window down at the top about one 
inch so she could get plenty of fresh air. She crushed 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 145 

ice, put it into a tumbler with a spoon in it, and tak- 
ing it to her let her swallow it. She crushed ice and 
tilted a tumbler as much as live or six times that 
afternoon, and May took all of it internally. She 
slept well all night, and the next morning the meas- 
les had come out full all over her. She eat but very 
little that day and recovered rapidly. In about 
three days went back to school. 



EXPERIENCE WITH DESSEY KERSEY. 

My wife's experience in croup : Dessey had croup 
several times previous and we would call a doctor, 
and several times we would be up all night with the 
child, it seeming to be very dangerous, several times 
worrying and fretting very much at the same time. 
After healing with hygienical principles, she taking 
the croup, my wife took warm water, put it into a 
tub, put a blanket into the warm water, wrung the 
water out of the blanket. She had a lounge pre- 
pared, and the child was stripped and the blanket 
placed around her. She put the child on the lounge, 
placed tw T o comforts over her, having it drink some 
hot tea, at the same time letting her remain on the 
lounge about twenty minutes. Warm a sheet, take 
the child up close to the fire with the blanket on 
it, and then throw the sheet around it, dropping 
the blanket down, and rub the child dry with sheet. 
Warm its night-clothing, place them on it, and give 
it some hot tea* Wet a cloth in some hot water, 
place it over its chest and throat. Have the bed 
good and warm by placing jugs of hot water in it ; 
put the child to bed and in thirty minutes it was 
asleep. We had no more trouble with it at that 
time, as it slept nicely all night and was well the next 
morning. This we have followed up since that time 
in the croup and never have had any trouble. This 
will effect a cure everv time. 



146 THE HOME GUIDE. 

EXPERIENCE WITH CHILLS AND FEVER. 

She sends to the drug store and gets snake-root, 
as it is bitter. She says : " The people think thev 
must have something bitter, as thev are accustomed 
to that." She makes tea out of the snake-root, 
puts them to bed, places three or four gallon -jugs 
filled with boiling water around the patient, giving 
them hot snake-root tea in quantities of about one- 
half pint every five minutes for one hour. Then 
sweat them about one hour Then have them take 
a bath or wash off with tepid water, wiping dry 
with a warm sheet or cloth. She never fails to 
effect a cure; in every instance she complains of 
the smell that is sweated out when she sweats them,, 
and says it is very offensive, and their under-cloth- 
ing is very yellow when taken off. Bathe frequently. 



Tetter. 



The rotten matter and broken-down tissue escap- 
ing there decays the skin, causes swelling, inflam- 
mation, irritation and soreness. For a remedy, 
sweat the whole human structure as named hereto- 
fore. Bathe frequently to keep the pores open. 
Use the ointment made of oil and cayenne pepper 
two nights on going to bed. Wash it off in the 
morning with tepid water and soap, wipe dry with a 
warm sheet or cloth. Eat perfect food. (See Per- 
fect Food.) Follow General Instructions. Make 
a poultice of wheat bran and mustard, put on place 
affected for four or five nights on going to bed. 
(See Instructions.) 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 147 

Tumor. 



It is caused by rotten matter and broken-down 
tissue flowing to the place affected, causing swelling, 
inflammation, soreness, and decaying the flesh or 
organs, wherever it may be, causing severe pains. 
For a remedy, sweat the human structure as directed 
heretofore. Use the ointment made of oil and cay- 
enne pepper, all over the human structure, three or 
four nights on going to bed. Wash it off in the 
morning with tepid water and soap, and wipe dry 
with a warm sheet or cloth. Eat perfect food. ( See 
Food for instructions, and General Instructions. ) If 
the tumor be on the external part, take one gallon of 
wheat bran and a teacupful of ground mustard, and 
make a stiff mush ; put into a sack while warm, place 
it over the affected part on going to bed at night — or 
any other time if the person is bed-fast ; bandage it, 
to hold it to its place, and leave it there all night. 
After taking it off, put a white cotton-flannel cloth 
over the place affected, and keep the cold air from 
coming in contact with the skin and closing the pores, 
keeping it warm at all times. Keep the place bound 
up. Eat perfect food and bathe frequently. (See 
General Instructions.) Wheat bran and mush poul- 
tices have cured cases of erysipelas, swelling, bruises, 
inflammation in a cut, proud flesh, rheumatism in 
the feet or hands, and inflammation or swelling 
wherever it can be applied. 



Cuts. 



Cure for Cuts. — Many people say you must 
apply a salve or some application to a cut to heal it. 
I find that there are no atoms or particles taken from 



148 THE HOME GUIDE. 

a salve to re-build, re-place, or fill up the vacuum or 
open space. The salve only acts as an artificial pro- 
tection, keeping out the air and dirt, retaining heat 
and moisture from what we eat and drink, making the 
blood flow through the arteries. The blood flows, 
carrying atoms or particles, re-placing or re-building 
the open space or vacuum, filling it up like a new 
growth called healing, until it is all re-built. (See 
True Art of Healing for other instructions.) Be 
careful to eat perfect food. (See Food for instruc- 
tions.) Bathe the body frequently with tepid water, 
keeping the pores open, keeping the salve on the cut. 
This should be made out of something not poisonous 
to the flesh. 



Receipt for Salve. 



One ounce of resin, one-half ounce tallow, — mut- 
ton is best, — one fourth ounce castile soap, one-half 
ounce sugar, and about one-half ounce pine-tar, if 
it can be had. Melt them together, pour them into 
a tin-box, or tin-cup, or something. Spread this on 
a piece of cotton muslin, and apply it to the affected 
part, put a bandage around it, and let it remain two 
or three days. Put on a new application of the same 
every few days until well. Be very careful not to 
irritate it. 






CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 149 

Burns. 



A barn is a decay or dissolving of the skin and 
flesh ; inflammation sets in immediately if the spot is 
not protected, and the rotten matter from the other 
parts of the body flow to that spot or place causing 
more inflammation, decaying the flesh, and causing 
swelling and severe pain. A burn must be protected 
with something similar to an artificial skin, aud 
which is not poisonous to the flesh or skin. Having 
had experience with a very severe burn, I took lin- 
seed oil and dipped a piece of cotton flannel into it. 
The burn was on the arm, extending from the hand 
to the elbow. It was scalded by boiling water until 
the skin all slipped oft*. Having dipped the cotton 
flannel into this linseed oil, I wrapped up the whole 
arm and hand with it, wrapping it around the arm 
about three times, and kept it wet with oil for ten 
or twelve days. At the end of that time it was 
entirely healed up. I was very careful not to let 
her eat any grease or fatty material, sugar, molasses, 
or salt, giving her perfect food to eat, bathing her 
frequently, and keeping the pores open and her ex- 
ternal parts warm, so the waste of the body could 
pass out through the skin. In burns you can use 
almost anything applied over the spot burnt that 
will protect it from the air and dirt, retaining the 
moisture and heat so that the blood can carry the 
material and re-build the affected part so it is not 
poisonous to the flesh or skin. Be very careful 
what you eat. It must be perfect food so as not 
to make any rotten matter as it would escape at 
that place causing inflammation, decay of the flesh, 
high temperature of heat and severe pain. (See 
True Art of Healing, Perfect Food, and General 
Instructions.) 



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Malaria a Humbug. 



I propose to knock out, kick out and entirely de- 
molish the commonly received but false idea of ma- 
laria. Belief in it, or that there is such a thing, is a 
superstition, or a piece of pure imagination without 
any real basis of truth. 

Let us take two men, brothers if you please ; they 
live in the same house : they breathe the same air ; 
they eat as the average American farmer eats, fat 
pork, lard, butter, sugar, molasses, pies, cakes, salt, 
bread made of white flour, with all the fats and fixt- 
ures, the pastry, and the many queer things known 
to the American cook. We will call one man Num- 
ber One, the other Number Two. Now, take Num- 
ber One, expose him to smallpox, feeding him the 
materials just named until he takes the smallpox. 
Suppose he has it, — a regular case of it, — and then 
gets well of it. How much rotten or corrupt mat- 
ter is cast out of him from first attack to recovery? 
I answer one gallon, if not more. Now, I ask the 
reader this question, "Where did that rotten or cor- 
rupt matter come from : from the air, or from the 
food?" 

Now take Number Two ; feed him on bread and 
mush puddings made from whole grain, such as 
wheat, rye and oats, fruits, vegetables, etc., for 
thirty days. Give him only water to drink all the 
time named. Bear in mind, he was as full of cor- 
rupt material, (the decayed tissue), as his brother 
up to the time you began the healthy diet ; but now, 
at the end of the thirty days' dieting suppose you 
expose this Number Two to the smallpox. What is 
the consequence? Startling as it may be, the truth 
is that he will not have smallpox at all. This has 
been clearly and repeatedly proven by doctors, pro- 
fessors, and presidents of medical colleges. At Ann 



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Arbor. Mich., Prof. Dwight, who has filled a profes- 
sor's chair nine years, (six at Ann Arbor, and three 
at Cincinnati, Ohio), said that if he could have a man 
who was full of corrupt matter in his charge, he 
would feed him for fifteen days with food of the 
three grains, wheat, rye, and oats, with some fruits ; 
he would then guarantee that there would be no pits 
or corruption marks. He said that the skin might 
be thickened and red, but absolutely no pits would 
appear. Moreover, he said that at the end of thirty 
days there would actually* be no remaining trace 
whatever of the disease. 

Now, to go back to our man Number Two, for a 
moment. Did he cease breathing the air during 
those thirty days in which his system was being 
brought into a smallpox-proof condition? No! we 
do not need to be told a man can not live without 
breathing. The truth is, he was living without the 
artificial greases, and the salt. Now, where does 
the "malaria" come from? It comes from the 
grease, fats, salt, sugar, molasses, and white flour; 
and so, with none of these in his system he had no 
smallpox, — the reverse of his brother ! 

Notice how r quickly doctors advise people to quit 
eating salt, sugar, fats, molasses, and grease, when 
the smallpox breaks out in a neighborhood. Did 
you ever hear of them advising people to quit breath- 
ing? But if what is called " malaria" comes indeed 
from the air, that would be exactly the right thing 
for the so-called guardians of the public health to 
advise, as well as the right thing for the people to 
do. On the contrary, they tell us to keep on breath- 
ing, never so much as hinting at a closing up of our 
mouths and noses, but they try to cut off the diet of 
grease, sugar, and the other artificial articles of food. 
Have you ever read in a certain book that "the legs 
of the lame are not equal?" 

Practically, such facts as the above must kick the 
malarial idea out of existence, and with it all such 



152 THE HOME GUIDE. 

kindred humbugs as germs, insects, bacteria, and the 
like. Seeing the ''profession" must have some 
scare-crow for the people, and some scape-goat for 
their own blunders, and failing to find anything bet- 
ter, they have used " the germ theory," " the para- 
site theory," and "the bacteria theory," rather 
than flatly own the truth. 

Let us lay theories aside and look at it honestly. 
The Creator made a great number of grains, beans, 
peas, vegetables both root and top, with, say, one 
hundred different fruits' for man's food. But man 
is not satisfied with all this abundance, although 
Infinite Wisdom provided it. He must fatten ani- 
mals, and then eat their fat, extract the fat from 
wheat, milk, cotton-seed, pork, and a host of similar 
things. Sugar, so extensively made and used is 
practically fat in another form. It is almost like 
grease when all the water is extracted, and it will 
burn like grease. And now for the result. Fats 
produce heat. Fever is the excess of heat produced 
by fat in the various things named, pork, sugar, 
molasses, etc., etc. Fever is abnormal heat or heat 
in excess. "Eat fat to keep up heat," has been a 
hobby of the doctors for ages past. It started in 
the Dark Ages, along with witch-craft, and a thous- 
and like superstitions. But, taught by true science, 
men have learned better. They see, or are begin- 
ning to see, that the Creator provided for our needs. 
They are learning the great lesson seen in the fact 
that those animals which live out of doors, exposed 
to the greatest cold, live wholly on the very simp- 
lest foods. The next truth to be learned is, that man 
who puts on extra clothing, has the shelter of warm 
houses and the aid of fire, needs artificial fats, greases, 
etc., no more than do the wild or domestic animals. 

Seeing that fever is the result of the combustion 
or burning up of fatty materials, and it having been 
proven that " malaria" as in the air or coming from 
the air is a fiction, we must admit that the results 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 153 

heretofore charged to malaria are properly charge- 
able to the table. And, as facts put the malaria to 
flight, so will the use of proper food and the wear- 
ing of proper clothing effectually drive away the host 
of ailments which men, and especially professional 
men, have, in their ignorance, attributed to malaria. 



Parasites, 



The " parasite theory,'" so generally used to ex- 
plain the causes or beginnings of disease, is a hum- 
bug wherever and whenever applied, except as relates 
to swine. Trichinea. the well-known hog disease, 
is a case, and the only one, where the theory holds 
good. It fails utterly and misleads entirely when 
brought to bear upon yellow fever and consumption. 

As will be seen by referring to Man Number Two 
in the article entitled, "Malaria a Humbug," there 
is no such thing as malarial or parasitic poison to 
cause disease in the man who goes thirty days with- 
out fats, sweets, butter, and such like things. It 
being true in his case, it can not be otherwise than 
true in all cases. In the case of Number One there 
was plenty of rotten or corrupt matter to be cast 
out, but Number Two, having abstained wholly from 
fat, etc., has nothing of a corrupted and corrupting 
nature to throw out of his body. It is all gone ; 
yes, gone without drugs, without a doctor's aid or a 
doctor's bill. 

It has been said that, in all the cases named, the 
parasite is not found, but that in trichinea it un- 
questionably is found. It might be added that as 
far as the writer's experience goes to show, recovery 
from trichinea is impossible. Death is certain if it 
is trichinea. 



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As there is a cause for everything, there is one for 
trichinea, and I submit that it and many other things 
like it, were made by the Creator as a terrible pen- 
alty which, by the fear of it, should stop man from 
eating the filthy, coarse, mangy hog-meat, which, in 
fact, is fit only for the buzzard. Although I used 
it, like my neighbors, for thirty-five years, I now 
condemn it as being without one solitary claim to 
the place it has in our food. I condemn it in all 
of its forms and in any quantity, great or small. 



Poison in the Body. 



The idea generally accepted is, that in every dis- 
ease there is poison in the body, and, as a natural 
sequence, poison of some other kind must be given 
to neutralize the first. I propose to show the utter 
absurdity of this idea. 

The uniform action of poisons upon the flesh and 
skin is to harden and toughen and preserve them 
from rotting. Now, in the case of diseases, we see 
that the corrupt matter which is discharged or thrown 
off, rots and decays the skin and membranes with 
which it comes in contact. We see it, often to our 
disgust, in the inner skin of the nostrils, the lunsjs, 
throat, and eyes. In the rectum the same thing, 
and in a similar way, produces piles, cancer, and the 
like. Even in scrofula, that dreadful scourge, I find 
no poison, no insects such as vermin, animalcule or 
parasites, but I find, and any one may find, plain, 
common corruption, made from butter, lard, pork, 
sugar, molasses and white flour. These articles are 
made up almost entirely of carbon, and carbon is 
the principal element of heat. And, as fever is 



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common heat in excess, it follows that an over sup- 
ply of carbon can only act as a feeder to the fever. 
La the face of such facts, why is it that men and 
women persist, year after year, in eating grease in 
the form of lard, butter, sugar, and that modern 
discovery branded oleomargarine, which, if all re- 
ports are not lies, is made of a dead animal and cot- 
ton-seed oil? Let each reader answer the question 
for himself, while I can gladly say that if anyone 
desires a remedy for the effect of such an unhealthy 
diet, it is here offered. Open the pores with heat, 
take ice internally on an empty stomach. In other 
words, cool the inside and heat the outside of the 
body. Then keep the outside warm, sweat freely, 
and you will get all the rotten matter out. Rub the 
skin with cayenne pepper or mustard mixed in a 
little vinegar or water or cocoanut oil. This will 
keep the pores open, and, as the corrupt matter 
will certainly come out, it is hardly necessary to add 
that the entire man will quickly experience an im- 
mensely beneficial result. I recommend only what 
I have tried for years, and, therefore, do not hesi- 
tate to say that immediate relief in almost all dis- 
eases, whether accute or chronic, will follow this 
simple process, viz., moisture and heat externally, 
with ice cold water or common herb tea internally. 
In contagious diseases, and even in cholera, the only 
sure thing is to put the person in a barrel of hot 
water. In this instance of cholera, immediate relief 
or rather instantaneous relief will follow. It will at 
once relieve cramps, for cramps are pains caused by 
the contraction of the flesh and muscles, and the 
cold is resultant from the blood leaving the extremi- 
ties. When the limbs are heated in the barrel of 
hot water the blood returns to them, the muscles 
relax, a pleasant moisture pervades the skin and 
rest, true and sweet, takes the place of torture. 



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"Hot Springs" at Home, 



Few have the means or time to go to the cele- 
brated Hot Springs of Arkansas. Nor is it neces- 
sary. That which is equal to, and in some respects 
superior to them, can be had at any home, however 
humble. The benefit which so many thousands have 
found at the famous resort is easily accounted for. 
The course of treatment there is made up of two 
parts : first, hot water bathing ; second, hot water 
drinking. The first opens the pores, so that the 
decayed, rotten and corrupt matter can pass out 
through them ; while the second forces this matter 
to the pores and by perspiration carries it away. 
Thus the system is washed from the inside. Every- 
body knows how offensive the smell of perspiration 
is as it comes from a sick person. The atoms of 
corrupt matter taint the air into which it is cast off. 

Now, to realize all these benefits at home, one has 
only to use rain water as it falls, or cistern water 
filtered. Make the water hot, put into it some 
cayenne pepper or ground mustard, and there's 
your " Hot Springs " bath. Care should be taken 
to rub the body dry with a warm sheet thrown over 
it to exclude the cold air. Go to bed at once, and 
drink plentifully of rain water or cistern water, or, 
if preferred, of some common herb tea, until a free 
perspiration follows. Keep up this for three or 
four days, or five, as found to be needed. In the 
meantime eat perfect food, and you will be glad this 
book ever came into your hands. 

What is given above will prove an excellent rem- 
edy in rheumatism, dropsy, scrofula, catarrh of the 
head, sore eyes, sore ears, running sores, yellow 
jaundice, liver complaint (so-called), and brain affec- 
tion, as well as many other complaints. But, it is 
to be remembered, that in consumption hot water 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 157 

must not be used externally or internally. The bath 
must be mild, not hot ; the drink must be ice or ice- 
water, and after the bath, on going to bed. oil and 
cavenne pepper ointment should be freely used. 



Heat. 



Heat is the product of a combination of sub- 
stances, and without these it is never produced. 
Let us take a few familiar examples of the genera- 
tion of heat, or caloric, as the text-books call it. 
In a wheat-stack, or hay-stack, or either hay or 
wheat stowed away in a barn, how quickly great 
heat is found, sometimes to a destructive degree. 
Or. take a pile of dry wheat, corn, oats, rye, or 
barley, pour water on it. and in a few days it will 
be found m a greatly heated condition. A pile of 
manure, either dry or afterwards wetted, or fresh 
from the stable, will very soon reach a temperature 
of from 110 to 115 degrees, or fever heat, which is 
about 106. 

When we look at the animals, including man, we 
find that all possess a certain amount of heat, and 
that if the Creator's wise arrangement is carried 
out, each one has precisely the degree or amount of 
heat generated in him which meets his needs. If 
we leave out man for the moment, and look only at 
some other animals, such as the horse, the cow, the 
deer, etc.. we see two remarkable facts. They are 
able to endure very considerable cold with little or 
no discomfort, and the only food they eat is the 
very plainest, in just the shape the Creator supplies 
it. But man. on the contrary, man who so gener- 
ally ignores the Creator's design, and takes his own 



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way in selecting, preparing and seasoning his food 
according to his own mistaken ideas and depraved 
appetites, he, in order to meet any considerable 
cold, has to call in the artificial aid of clothing, fire 
and almost air-tight dwellings. Why do not men 
see this, or rather, why is it not put into practice, 
for chemists, at least, know what the combination 
is which produces heat in the body, namely, carbon, 
oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, lime and 
hydrogen. The Creator, knowing what he made 
man of, knowing all his needs, takes these elements 
above-named, and in exact proportion unites and 
blends them so that the result suits the necessity 
precisely. And yet man, whose pride leads him to 
suppose himself wiser J;han his Maker, takes upon 
himself the two-fold task of first preparing his food 
out of all harmony with the Creator's design, and 
then of either enduring or getting out of his body 
the disastrous effects which the injurious food be- 
gets. So he collects the carbon, or grease, by 
various ways and in many forms, fills his system 
with it and is diseased. Is this human wisdom or 
human foolishness? 

Chemistry teaches us that carbon is the principal 
element of animal heat. We know also that fever 
is only this very heat in excess. What an absurd- 
ity it is, then, to keep on piling in carbon, or grease, 
when there is heat enough, or too much, already! 
Does any one of us put oil into a stove to cool it, 
after seeing and feeling that it is, perhaps, already 
red-hot? No ; we are aware that wood and coal are 
the proper things to maintain a regular and pleasant 
amount of heat. That is the very purpose for which 
they were made, and just so it is with grain-food 
and the like, as to our healthful animal heat. Thus 
we have fact instead of fiction, common sense and 
not superstition, a foundation of bed-rock reality in 
the place of the vague theories which have governed 
or enslaved men for ages. 



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This grand lesson costs the reader little or noth- 
ing, but the writer learned it at a cost of at least 
five thousand dollars and by a hundred thousand 
miles' travel. In the latter I have met more fiction 
or, to call it plainly, humbug, than anything else. 
The people are duped, (and doped,) while the doc- 
tors are deceived, and perhaps deceivers, as well. 
Take one man as a sample. He had been a college 
professor of medicine nine years. His name is on 
many medical diplomas throughout the United States. 
Yet, this very head-light of modern medical science 
testified to me that he and his colleagues had never 
found any remedy which would certainly cure any 
particular disease fully and to entire satisfaction. 
Moreover, the same man told me that he never takes 
any drug himself nor gives one to his family. In 
short, as another "M. D." admitted, in most cases 
either one of two things is true : the physician does 
not know what ails the patient, or, if he does hap- 
pen to find that out he does not know what to give 
to cure it. Few of the doctors are honest enough, 
however, to confess what the first-named one did to 
me, saving: "I make my living bv giving drugs, 
though I will not take them myself. The people will 
have them and pay for them, and I may as well have 
their money as somebody else." With all his sci- 
ence and his titles, he was on a level with the liquor 
seller, whose object is money, regardless of his fel- 
low-men and their destruction. 

The terrible effects of liquor-drinking need no 
comment here, but it may be well to look at the way 
it touches health and strength. It has been seen 
from the newspapers for a lifetime that a very large 
majority of men who suffer sunstroke are users of 
liquor, beer, ale, or fancy drinks containing alcohol. 
Such men can not stand the external heat, added to 
the internal heat which the drink has produced. 
Liquor, of pure proof, contains 52 per cent, of oil or 
carbon, and it might therefore be called grease or 



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fat, as it acts like either of them, as far as feeding 
the animal heat is concerned. 

To name all the articles, which, when taken as food 
or drink raise the animal heat to the degree which is 
called fever, would require a long list. But some, 
which, while doing this, will also fill the system with 
rotten matter and corruption, and thus breed disease 
in some form or other, are as follows : Butter, 
(either from the cow, or from cotton-seed oil and 
carcass, which is oleomargarine), grease, fat, lard, 
pork, tallow, cotton-seed oil, (eaten), oils of all 
kinds, sugar, molasses, w T hite-flour, and any combi- 
nation of these articles ; pickles, preserves, jellies, 
and all such preparations, and all kinds of liquors 
and beer. If men will persist in eating and drink- 
ing these things, and so fill their bodies with corrup- 
tion the Creator must step in to do a cleansing work. 
This He does with smallpox, by which from twelve 
to twenty pounds of rotten matter or corruption 
is discharged from the patient's body. I firmly be- 
lieve that it is on this very errand that smallpox is 
sent, viz., to purge out of the human system the 
impurities bred in it by bad food, and I have not 
named a single article in the above list but will pro- 
duce that which must be cleansed out before perfect 
health can be had. 

Medical men, and many others, well know that if 
a man diets himself, avoiding grease, sugar, oil, salt, 
etc., for twenty or thirty days, he may be exposed 
to smallpox, but will not take it. The system, being 
already free from impurity by abstaining from the 
things which make corruption, does not need any 
such cleansing as smallpox gives, and those who do 
not need it do not have it. The same might be said 
as to many other diseases, such as yellow fever, 
measles, and chicken-pox, both as to the cleansing 
work they are sent to do, the warning they give, and 
the very important fact that people who live on per- 
fect food are not afflicted with them. 



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FAT MAKES HEAT. 

Let us start with a few foundation principles. 
Fat, or grease, makes heat ; fever is only common 
heat in excess : therefore, one who has fever has too 
much fat, or grease, in his system; or, to put it 
more briefly, there is too much heat because there 
is too much fuel. It is plain that there can be no 
heat if there is no fuel. 

When the supply of such foods as contain a large 
proportion of carbon, such as lard, butter, pork, 
and such drinks as whisky and beer is shut off, the 
tires of fever will go out. All the heat necessary to 
maintain health and comfort can be obtained from 
eating grain foods like whole wheat flour and beans, 
vegetables and fruits. Not only do they contain 
enough heat-producing material, but it is in such 
exact proportion that its effect in the body is health 
and comfort. 

Perhaps nothing more plainly shows the utter ab- 
surdity of the old school manner of dealing with 
fevers than the following : A gentleman in Michi- 
gan told me that one of his two sons w T as taken with 
typhoid fever. The doctor prescribed a pint of 
whisky every twenty-four hours, so much every 
hour, which was given. Up w r ent the boy's temper- 
ature to 110 degrees. Nature could stand such a 
murderous outrage only for three days, and the boy 
died. Shortly afterward the other son had the same 
kind of fever. Again the same doctor (?) ordered 
whisky, "But," said the now awakened father, "no, 
sir ! not a drop of whisky shall be given my son. 
It is murder." Of course the doctor was angry, 
but the father was firm, and after leaving a powder 
or two the physician went away. The father and 
mother then got the boy into a free sweat by the 
means elsewhere described and a rapid recovery re- 
warded their sensible efforts. They know, and I 
know, that their first boy was murdered, literally 



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burnt alive. Don't let any doctor try any such ex- 
periment on you or yours. The fact is, that the 
whisky given in the case of the murdered boy con- 
tained about as much carbon as lard does, and -as 
carbon is a principal element of heat, the giving of 
it to a body already loo hot was a fatal blunder — to 
call it mildly. Nor would I speak of any one school 
as if the others were any better. They all fight 
each other ; no two doctors of any one school will 
give just the same treatment, and never having 
learned the real cause or seed of disease they can 
not deal with it surely and successfully. Mairy of 
the cures they claim are not made by their treatment, 
but in spite of it. 



The Human Structure. 



As the term " human body " is sometimes used to 
denote the trunk, exclusive of the limbs, I use the 
above heading to denote all together. It is com- 
posed or built of fourteen different substances. 
Four-fifths of it, or eighty pounds in a hundred, is 
water. Taking eighty pounds from one hundred 
leaves twenty. Notice how small a part is left to be 
kept up by food in order to have the flesh round and 
plump. If a person weighs 154 pounds only about 
thirty pounds are to be sustained by the food. Sup- 
pose he eats two pounds of food per day, how many 
days will his body require to undergo a complete 
change? Probably not more than twenty, but say 
twenty-eight or thirty at the most, as it is taken for 
granted that one-half the food is dissolved into atoms 
for flesh-building, which is not far from the fact. 
Now, see what amount of broken-down tissue must 






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be moved out of the system. It is one pound per 
day for every hundred pounds. This broken-down 
tissue of a pound's weight must be gotten rid of 
each dav, through the skin, lungs, urine, etc. In 
the composition of a man's body weighing 154 
pounds there are 111 pounds of oxygen gas, and 14 
pounds of hydrogen gas, which when united form 
water. So that in a body weighing 154 pounds we 
have really 111 plus 14 pounds, or 125 pounds of 
water. This shows again how little is left to be sup- 
plied by food, or food and air, namely 29 pounds. 
Analyzing this remainder of 29 pounds, it is made 
up of 21 pounds carbon, 3 pounds 8 ounces nitro- 
gen gas, 1 pound 12 ounces, 190 grains phosphorus, 
2 pounds calcium, (the chief ingredient of bone), 
2 ounces fluorine, 2 ounces, 219 grains sulphur, 2 
ounces, 47 grains chlorine, 2 ounces, 116 grains so- 
dium, 100 grains iron, 290 grains potassium, 12 
grains magnesium, and 2 grains of silicon. These 
simple substances are constantly passing out of the 
body through the lungs, skin, and other excreting 
organs, if the pores are kept open. But if this car- 
rying out process is hindered by the pores being 
closed, trouble, in the form of disease, shows itself. 
It is found that certain of these elements are used 
for one part of the body, and others for other parts, 
and this is in a certain, regular proportion. Thus 
carbon is the chief element of fat, and it also sup- 
plies the fuel that combines with oxygen in the cap- 
illaries to produce heat. The nitrogen which we 
gain from our food and the air, is the chief element 
of muscle ; phosphorus is the chief element of brain 
and nerves ; and calcium, or lime is the hard portion 
of the bones : iron is an important element of blood ; 
and silicon supplies the hardest part of the teeth, 
nails, and hair. 

We are perishing and being born again at every 
instant. We do literally enter over and over again 
into the womb of that Great Mother from whom we 



164 THE HOME GUIDE. 

get our bones, and flesh and blood and marrow. " I 
die daily," is true of all that live. If we cease to 
die, particle by particle, and to be born anew in the 
same proportion, the whole movement of life comes 
to an end, and swift, irreparable decay resolves our 
frames into the parent elements. If all the pores 
are kept open, clear of dirt, tilth, glue, wax, grease, 
and the like, then the broken-down tissue will be 
carried out through the skin and other excreting 
organs. 

It is because the human structure is in a state of 
continual change that we eat, drink and breathe. 



o 



Because where there is a constant tearing down there 
must be a continuous building up. The constant 
expenditure calls for an unceasing supply. Now the 
great question is, shall this building up, this supply 
be of pure materials or of impure ones. Remem- 
bering that the greater part of the body is water (or 
oxygen and hydrogen, which, united, form water), 
bearing in mind that a large, if not the larger, part 
of flesh is obtained from the sea of air in which we 
live — with these facts before us we see clearly how 
very small a proportion of the body depends upon 
food for its support. And, by the way, this leads 
us to infer that over-eating is a common practice. 

We have in a plant a beautiful illustration of the 
foregoing. Take a stalk of corn, or the stalk, corn 
and leaves together; and if you burn them, but a 
little part is left ; only the ashes, in fact, weighing 
say three or four pounds out of every hundred 
pounds. All that passes away in the burning is of 
atmospheric origin, or from the air It is really the 
material gathered by the plant from the open space, 
and is not lost or destroyed by the burning. It 
simply passes back to the source from which it 
came, and there it is the same as it was before the 
plant gathered it, or breathed it in, as one might say. 
To present this clearly, let us suppose a great city is 
burned. All the wood and other combustible ma- 



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terials are burned or melted down, leaving on the 
ground only the ashes. But the great volume of 
heat, vapor and smoke rises into space in so many 
atoms or molecules. They certainly are not de- 
stroyed, but are ready, and, so to speak, waiting for 
future use. There they are until creative power, by 
means of the sun and other agencies, makes them 
up again into man, beast, plant, tree and creeping 
things on the earth. Man, alas ! has but the very 
faintest idea of the perfection and grandeur of this 
magnificent work of the Creator. Could he but 
attain to it, neither pain, fatigue, disease nor misery 
would be his earthly lot, but unmixed happiness and 
health. But, instead of grasping this divine perfec- 
tion, or even reaching toward it, we see mankind 
in one great strain after wealth — each individual 
struggling and panting to possess not only whatever 
he sees his neighbor have, but, never contented with 
an equality, is always racing after superiority. And 
what, O reader, is the end and finish of this mad 
race and struggle? Listen to one of the most suc- 
cessful strugglers after wealth — James B. Neal, of 
Boston, Mass. — one of the richest. He says : "Oh, 
I have been a fool : I have made an ass of myself 
trying to obtain money. And now that I have it in 
abundance, I would cheerfully give half I have for 
health.'' The history of rich men's sons is written 
in one brief sentence: "Ninety per cent, of them 
go to ruin.'' The reason is plain. Unlike the son 
of parents in poor or moderate circumstances, the 
son of the rich idles away his time, feels independ- 
ent of all obligation and duty ; the lack of better oc- 
cupation leads him to seek the company of the 
worthless — the gambler, the horse-racer, the prosti- 
tute. Fast horses, fast men and fast women form 
his stock of knowledge ; they are his educators, 
until he in turn becomes a teacher in this school of 
ruin, and leads others to destruction. So the wealth 
laid up for him by the parents is a double curse — to 



1(36 THE HOME GUIDE. 

them while getting it, to him while throwing it away. 
The number of things made and sold which add to 
man's toil, weariness and pain while taking away his 
strength to bear either, is perhaps infinite. If his 
wants were never greater than his needs, content- 
ment, peace and health would always be his. Here 
is the secret of right living:. 



ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN STRUCTURE. 

Before one can fully know what is the proper food 
for his body, he must see what materials compose 
the body, and what the proper proportion of each is. 
We will take the body of a man weighing 154 pounds. 
Of this, 111 pounds are oxygen gas, and 14 pounds 
hydrogen gas, which, when united, form water; 
21 pounds carbon ; 3 pounds 8 ounces nitrogen gas : 

1 pound 12 ounces, 190 grains phosphorus ; 2 pounds 
lime, the chief ingredient of bone ; 2 ounces fluorine ; 

2 ounces, 219 grains sulphur ; 2 ounces, 47 grains 
chlorine ; 2 ounces, 116 grains sodium ; 100 grains 
iron; 290 grains potassium; 12 grains magnesium, 
and 2 grains silicon. These substances are continu- 
ally passing out of the body through the lungs, skin 
and other excreting organs. Adding together oxv- 
gen and hydrogen, as above, gives 125 pounds ; take 
this, which is the water, from the 154 pounds, and 
29 pounds is the remainder, or less than twenty 
pounds to the hundred. Now, from this 29 pounds 
take out the fluids, viz., carbon, nitrogen, phos- 
phorus, (seethe weight given above), or 25^ pounds 
in all, and ?>% pounds are left. This is the min- 
eral substance, 3J pounds, or only a fraction over 
2i pounds to each hundred pounds of the man's 
weight, with 25 J pounds solid material made from 
the food and air, and 125 pounds water. As 






CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 167 

before stated, these substances are constantly pass- 
ing out of the human structure, therefore they 
should be taken into the body in exactly the same 
proportion. This is really what the body needs 
for health and natural growth. Thus taken, they 
are consumed, and so meet the necessities of all the 
various parts of the entire structure. These mate- 
rials, blended in exactly the right proportions, are 
found only in perfectly natural growths, such as 
wheat, rye, oats, vegetables, and in fruits which do 
not contain too much acid, lean meat like beef, game, 
etc. (He that can live without the meat is so much 
better off. ) On the other hand, butter, fruit-butters, 
preserves, jellies, pickles, pies, cakes, and pastry ; 
all such things as pork, lard, sugar, fat, candy, mo- 
lasses, vinegar, beer, liquor, tobacco, cigars, spices, 
and salt, with a host of things called " h'xins," make 
the essence of diseases in the human structure, and 
this essence or seed must be thrown off by the blood. 
When the pores become closed this material remains 
in the structure and disease of some kind sets in, 
with pain, because it rots or decays whatever part 
it goes to — if to the lungs, lung fever or consump- 
tion results ; if to the throat, sore throat ; if to the 
bronchial tubes, soreness there ; if to the eyes, in- 
flammation and soreness in them ; if to the kidneys, 
kidney affection follows ; if to the rectum, it pro- 
duces piles ; if it goes to the bladder it makes in- 
flammation of that organ : carried to the spleen this 
corrupt matter produces pleurisy ; to the head, ca- 
tarrh of the head, and if it settles generally through 
bones, head, lungs, and all over the human frame, 
typhoid fever is the result. It is therefore of the 
very utmost importance that this corrupt material be 
thrown off from the system through the pores. The 
general instructions given under that heading, if 
faithfully obeyed, will certainly do this. Then, after 
the evil is cast out a repetition of it must be avoided 
by following directions given under Perfect Food. 



168 THE HOME GUIDE. 

CHANGE OF THE HUMAN STRUCTURE. 

The human body changes in full every twenty- 
eight days. This body, as already stated elsewhere, 
is eighty parts water out of every hundred pounds. 
There is, therefore, very little of the bodily sub- 
stance to be made out of food. The man takes of 
food, we will say, three or perhaps four pounds per 
day ; two-thirds of this, or two pounds, is made into 
flesh, etc., so that the change is at the rate of two 
pounds per day. The larger proportion of the 
bodily weight being fluid, as before stated, it is de- 
rived, not from food, but from the immense sea of 
fluid, or the air, by which he is surrounded in space. 
Thus man breathes in more of his flesh than he takes 
in by food strictly so-called. Here is the secret of 
Dr. Tanner's forty-day fast. He breathed in suf- 
ficient food for the sustenance of life. 

The great ocean of air is made up of the same 
materials as is the larger part of the body. Cremate 
die body and only about three pounds of every hun- 
dred weight remain, — the rest goes back into the air 
from whence it came. And it may be here sug- 
gested that as all living things, whether walking, 
or creeping on the earth, or digging in it, or flying 
over it, or that swim in the water, have their bodies 
in the same proportion as man, he has little cause 
for exaltation over them physically, in which sense, 
at least, they are his brothers, getting practically 
the same food from the same fontal bosom. 

Follow briefly the food as it is taken into* the 
mouth, chewed, swallowed, passed to the stomach, 
where it is melted up or dissolved into a thin mass, 
the atoms separated from each other ; now passing 
through the bowels to the colon, where the water 
separates whatever will make bone, brain, nerve, 
muscle, or hair, dividing it from the dross, which 
passes to the rectum and is thence discharged. All 
hut the dross is conveyed through the duct to the 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 161* 

heart, thence to the lungs, thence outwardly, and so 
carried through the arteries to all parts of the body. 
Here at this point, where it leaves the heart, and in 
the separation then taking place, is where the ex- 
quisitely tine work comes in. Here it is that all the 
things we have eaten, drank and breathed, (except 
the dross), previously blended, are now divided ac- 
cordingly as they are for building the different parts, 
— the brain, the muscles, hair, etc.. — the lime, pot- 
ash, and soda to the bone, phosphorus to the brain 
and nerves and so forth, while the carbon is taken to 
all parts generally. Here it is that we see the work 
done bv water ; here we get some idea both of the 
atomic change which the human structure unceas- 
ingly undergoes. A parallel to this change, is, with 
perhaps trilling variations, found in plants, trees, 
and all animals. So literally and accurately true is 
this that one may place his hand on anything which 
has life, animal or vegetable, and say, "that which 
1 touch to-day will be gone in one short month." 
Nay, the very hand laid upon it to-day will have 
passed away, all, -from outer skin to inner bone and 
even the marrow in the bone, ere thirty days will 
have vanished, and each component particle be re- 
placed by another. In the presence of such a fact 
as this, whose very reality can hardly be grasped to 
say nothing of its universality, in such a presence 
it seems scarcely needful to emphasize the import- 
ance of every individual seeing, each for himself, 
that the materials he furnishes his body shall be 
those which the Creator provides, unmixed, unadul- 
terated and natural, (i. e. according to nature), so 
that this 4i change" may be constantly for the bet- 
ter, the purer, the healthier, and so rising to perfec- 
tion of health and physical happiness, and not in a 
descending, degrading scale towards disease and 
misery. 



170 THE HOME GUIDE. 

Water, 



Of all the elements known to man, water is the 
greatest and grandest. Among all the many agents 
by which nature's processes are carried on and her 
work performed, water is the most powerful. Look 
at it in one of its forms, the rain-fall, and you behold 
a display of power, robed in beauty, such as all 
man's skill, with all his machinery, can not for one 
moment equal. Consider the circulation of water 
through the earth, notice how it starts perhaps from 
its great parent, Ocean, penetrating and flowing 
through the soil, bearing the various mineral sub- 
stances it holds in solution to the myriad plants and 
trees and flowers. Nothing can be more perfect, 
nothing more awe inspiring and grand. You may see 
also its wonderful adaptation to the ends designed by 
the Creator, if you but draw a bucketful from a well 
or spring. As yet the minute particles of mineral 
treasures it contains are not visible to the eye, but 
place it in the tea-kettle, boil it and see them as 
deposited on the bottom. The result, after a few 
weeks' use of the kettle is familiar to all. Yet, 
familiar as that deposit is, it contains that which 
makes the strength or body of all plants and trees. 
This material is first collected by the water, then it 
bears it to the plant, delivers it up into the plant- 
structure, and deposits it just where needed. Then, 
in eating the plant or grain it becomes yours ; it is 
dissolved in your stomach ; it passes through the in- 
testines and colon to the duet, thence to the heart, 
and then water carries it to the bones and deposit- 
ing it, makes the hard part, or bone proper. I say 
the water does all this, for the blood is ninety or 
ninety-two per cent, water. Blood is water and 
what you eat mixed together. So to rightly esti- 
mate the work and value of water one must studv 






CUKE WITHOUT DRUGS. 171 

every atom in man, beast, tree, plant and, in fact, 
all things created. All of these atoms are moved 
by water. I have felt that water must be endowed 
with reason, nor is such a belief without foundation. 
For an example, when the blood leaves the heart all 
the different molecules or atoms combined in the 
water (called blood), as it flows through the arte- 
ries, are taken infallibly to the right place or part. 
By what seems to be intelligence, if indeed it is not 
that, it separates, divides and distributes each sub- 
stance or material to the very spot where it is 
needed. There is no blind chance about its work ; 
the lime, ash and soda are carried to the bone, the 
nitrogen to the muscles, or to form lean flesh, the 
phosphorus to the brain and nerves, and the carbon, 
or grease, is borne to all parts of the structure to 
build up the various parts, and to produce heat. 
Now, the liver, lungs and kidneys are composed 
very differently from each other. Unless it possesses 
reason or the power of thought, how could the water 
do all this exquisitely fine work of separating and 
selecting and conveying exactly that, and only that, 
which is always right ! There is no such thing as 
construction like that is without reason and thought. 
Even our puny works of building or constructing 
require both thought and reason, as we all well 
know, but when compared with man's mightiest 
works, how this stupendous and universal work of 
the Creator rises in the loftiest grandeur and the 
sublimest wisdom, as the Alps, robed in snow, 
crowned with the clouds, tower above the peasant's 
hut at their feet. With feelings of reverence, there- 
fore, I ask my readers to follow the work of water 
yet a little further, especially as it relates to our 
bodies. When food and water leave the mouth and 
pass into the stomach, human control of it ceases — 
the water now takes the control. So also it is when 
the blood leaves the heart, the water has entire 
charge and command of the operation of separating, 



172 THE HOME GUIDE. 

selecting, distributing and depositing each particle 
of the different flesh, bone, hair, or brain-building 
materials, never making any mistake as to which is 
which and where it should go. 

The entire human structure passes through a change 
every twenty-eight days. The two pounds of food 
a man eats each day is simply to supply material for 
the repairs which constant waste renders necessary. 
The flesh which a sick man loses, say in a month, 
the food and water re-build. But as the water is 
eighty-two parts of his body, see how little food is 
required for the repair to go on — only eighteen 
pounds to every hundred. In the case of a man 
weighing 150 pounds, only twenty-eight to thirty 
pounds are solids — the balance being water. So we 
say a pound a day for thirty days completes the 
change. The food eaten should therefore be adjusted 
to this fact, not only in kind but in amount. 

Water is the only thing that can move one atom 
or particle in this work of building, either in man, 
beast, plant, or tree. How quickly the plant wilts 
and the man dies without it. Yet, in days gone by 
it was a cast-iron rule with the doctors to forbid 
water to a man who was wilting down with fever ; but 
the fact is that water (or ice, which is better), when 
given internally, will reduce heat quicker than any- 
thing else known to man. That old doctors' rule 
has caused untold suffering and unnumbered deaths, 
and yet some still cling to it. A long list of testi- 
monials or statements might be furnished from people 
given up to die, who, by chance, accident, or driven 
by the agonies of thirst, were fortunate enough to 
get hold of all the water, ice, milk, or buttermilk 
they could drink, and were not only relieved but 
cured by it. One case on record is where the fever- 
stricken person drank a gallon of cider, and at once 
recovered. There is another terrible notion, born of 
the same superstition as is that of forbidding water 
to the feverish, and that is the giving of drugs in 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 173 

fevers. Seeing that there are from twelve to sixteen 
pounds of rotten matter in the blood, which must 
come out through the pores of the skin, how ridicu- 
lous to suppose that a drug will remove it. It is no 
more sensible than to attempt with one drop of 
water to create enough steam to move a railroad en- 
gine which shall pull twenty-five or thirty loaded 
cars. But this is not all, drugs are destructive, 
water is restorative. We have seen already how 
beautifully and rapidly it re-builds and perfects the 
repair in one who has been sick. Is it not reasona- 
ble to say that if it can do all the work of reconstruc- 
tion and repair in a well person, it can and will con- 
vey and carry out all the worthless, rotten material 
in a sick man? In fact, we know positively that 
water does just this very thing. Let a fever-patient 
be put into a free and thorough sweat ; how quickly 
an offensive odor fills the room. Millions of atoms 
or molecules of rotten matter come out of the body 
of the sick, and, coming in contact with our organs 
of smell, produce the bad stench. A drug will not 
do this ; it simply adds fuel to the fire. 

Water is the very thing the sick with fever need. 
The sickness begins with what is called a cold. 
Properly speaking it is cold outside and heat, or fe- 
ver inside. The pores are closed by the cold con- 
tracting the skin, and they can not permit the blood, 
or water, with its load of rotten matter to pass through 
them, no more than water can pass through a piece 
of muslin after you have filled the pores or meshes 
of the cloth with paint. Now, the pores being 
stopped by the accumulated waste, this is the very 
moment for the water to think and decide, as it 
were, what to do in the case. It decides to try some 
other outlet or avenue, and so it starts back, carry- 
ing some of the rotten matter to the nose, and im- 
mediately you begin to sneeze. Hot water and mat- 
ter begin to run at the nose, the inside of which gets 
sore and hot, the head fills up, and no sufficient out- 



174 THE HOME GUIDE. 

let being yet found, the lungs till up. Some of the 
corrupt matter is carried through the flesh by the 
water and deposited there. If this matter will make 
the nose sore and hot it will do the same for the 
lungs. If it will rot the inside lining of the nose it 
will rot the lunsjs ; if it will brin^ fever-heat into 
the nose it will bring fever-heat to the lungs, and 
if it will rot the nose and lungs it will rot the flesh 
and cause pain wherever it goes, for the pain you 
feel in sickness is from the flesh rotting with rotten 
matter in it. This is the cause of pain in chronic 
diseases, neuralgia, toothache, etc. To carry out the 
idea in full I ask the reader to look at cancer. A 
great deal is said about cancer-roots, and the pre- 
vailing idea is that these roots gnaw or eat up the 
flesh. Now, I will give five hundred dollars ($500) 
for cancer-roots which gnaw, eat up, or swallow any 
flesh ! What do the roots do with the flesh, or the 
residue of it, after they eat up the flesh? But let us 
get at the facts. As already stated, that which will 
rot the inner skin of the nose, and make the nose 
sore in a " bad cold " will do the same for the lungs 
in consumption, or for the head in catarrh. In scrof- 
ula the first thing is a red spot, then yellow water 
and yellow corruption. The yellow matter gives it 
this color. It oozes out, rots the skin and the flesh 
also, and in a short time there is seen the hole or 
cavity, dug out, as it were, by the rotting process. 
Now, if this corrupt material will rot the nose and 
lungs and flesh, in other forms of disease it will also 
rot the flesh in cancer, and it most certainly does 
this very thing. We must, therefore, correct the 
old idea and false theory by substituting the word 
"rotting" for "eating," as applicable to cancer. 
The old and false notion being exploded, the old 
method of treatment is blown to pieces with it. No 
man in his right mind will deny that the cutting and 
butchering generally practiced in the case of a can- 
cer keeps up and increases the irritation, and we 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 175 

know that the more any spot or place on the body 
or limbs is irritated the more the corrupt matter 
flows to that particular locality. What is needed is 
not any cutting or slashing, but a cleansing out of 
the corruption from the entire system by free sweat- 
ing and a sound, healthy diet, composed of hygienic 
foods. (See further under Cure for Cancer.) 

In dropsy the pores of the skin are closed as if it 
had been thoroughly covered with a coat of paint, 
and through them none of the rotten or corrupt mat- 
ter in the body can pass out, the water of course re- 
mains also, as it can not do otherwise, and, as two- 
thirds of all the water and fluids the man drinks 
should pass out through the pores, the consequence 
is, when they are closed, that the body fills up with 
water. The air also in the body, passing through 
the arteries to the skin finding the pores closed can 
not pass out ; so, being forced to remain, inflates or 
puffs up the flesh, etc., as seen to be in all cases of 
dropsy. This, then, is the condition ; the rotten 
matter retained rots the flesh, causing pain, the wa- 
ter in the body unduly increased, with the air retained, 
inflates or swells the body, — and this is dropsy. Full 
directions for treating it will be found under the 
proper heading. 

If we give proper weight to the fact that atoms or 
particles can be moved in the body, or carried out 
of it, oahj by water, we shall see how essential water 
is in the right treatment of disease. Look at fever ; 
it is heat, or better still, excessive heat. Heat is 
produced by a combination of certain substances — 
call it the fire and call them the fuel, if you please. 
In the disease we are looking at there is too much 
heat. How do you propose to lower the heat or re- 
duce the fire? Common sense and The Home Guidp: 
with one voice say : " Get rid of the excess of heat- 
making material through nature's appointed channel, 
the skin-pores." This you can do by water and in 
no other way If, by opening the pores and a 



17f> THE HOME GUIDE. 

thorough sweat, you give the water a chance, it will 
do this work to perfection. Ity referring to testi- 
monials given elsewhere, it will be seen how easily 
the heat of fever is reduced by the simple action of 
ice inside with heat and moisture outside. This 
draws the corrupt matter (excess of fuel) to the sur- 
face of the skin, through which it parses out. Let 
not my readers be startled at the idea of the ice, the 
only danger is that the fever-hot patient will not get 
enough of it. Fifteen or twenty glassfuls of it, 
crushed fine, will do twice as much good as half that 
quantity. Taken thus, internally, of course, it will 
stop flux in a few hours, and if the outer extremities 
be kept hot, a recovery will speedily follow. 

With me it is a settled fact, and I hope that it will 
be also with the reader, that disease is rotten matter 
and broken-down tissue, or waste, retained or con- 
fined in the human system. Pain is its result. Nor 
am I willing to call this material by the oft-used 
name of " poison." Poison toughens, hardens and 
preserves ; this rotten and rotting matter works rot 
and decay. In order to have health it must be got- 
ten out of the system by water ; and then to keep 
health, no more of the evil-breeding stuff, in the 
shape of bad food, must be put into the body. Do 
this, and the whole man is in condition for work of 
whatever kind it may be. The head is clear, the 
muscles pliable, the limbs supple, and vigor enters 
into every thought and every motion. 

In the year 1878, when yellow fever showed itself 
in the South, many people who had it were already 
sick with other diseases, dropsy, consumption, rheu- 
matism, etc., but behold the startling fact! when 
they recovered from the fever they were well of the 
other disease at the same time. The yellow fever 
cast out of them the corrupt matter ; when they were 
put through the process of sweating the air around 
them was so filled with it that it was terribly offen- 
sive. The skin itself became like that of uersons 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 177 

with yellow jaundice, and the under-clothing turned 
yellow, filled with the rotten matter thrown off*. 
Truly the doctors have a death-grip on the people, 
or else such facts as these would lead out from slav- 
ery and superstition into freedom and knowledge. 
The author was fifteen years in their clutches, but 
has now been fifteen out of them, so that he is not 
guessing at these things My effort and my hope is 
to get others to come out of bondage without paying 
the price I paid for liberty, namely, about five thou- 
sand dollars expense and a hundred thousand miles 
of travel. 

Nothing is more interesting and beautiful than the 
study of water as it starts on its course from the 
veins of the earth, or from the soil. Forced out 
of these to the surface by internal heat, or drawn to 
the surface perhaps by the sun, once there, it is, by 
the power of solar heat, expanded into vapor or 
steam, separated into atoms, raised into open space, 
forms clouds and then, condensed again or rolled to- 
gether in drops, falls to the earth, forms creeks, 
rivers, lakes and oceans, or supplying those already 
existing. So also, in a very similar way, we see 
water in the human body, with a circulation and a 
work there no less necessary and beneficial. The 
food taken into the stomach is dissolved by the 
gastric juices, each atom is separated according to 
its kind, each by itself, passes through the bowels, 
colon and duct to the heart, thence through the ar- 
teries, etc., to all parts of the body. Water, called 
blood, does all this carrying and distributing work ; 
and further, it not only bears the new material for 
re-building wherever and as fast as needed, but, 
finding a waste, or refuse matter, the broken-down 
and worthless tissue there, carries it away and un- 
loads it, through the pores, etc., into space. Plants,' 
trees and beasts all furnish parallel examples of the 
same wonderful operation. 

M 



178 THE HOME GUIDE. 

The following will also aid in forming a true esti- 
mate of water's value and importance in the human 
body. Animals, man and beast, get their mineral 
substances, or two and eight-tenth parts, from veget- 
able growths, and their fluids, or ninety-seven and 
two-tenth parts, from the air or open space. Of the 
blood, ninety per cent, is water. If you take ten 
parts of whole-wheat flour and ninety parts of water, 
mix them, and if it were possible to dissolve the flour 
thoroughly, as is partially done in boiling, you 
would have a very close imitation of blood, or rather 
of that part of the blood which the stomach, bowels, 
etc., supply. Now comes the fluid, from the great 
ocean of space in which we live, filled as it is with 
billions of atoms or particles for our use by breathing. 

Viewed in any of its operations, either in the stu- 
pendous economy of a globe, or in the smaller but 
equally vital interior work constantly done in our 
bodies ; looked at in the atom of vapor, or the plen- 
titude of the rainfall and the grandeur of the billowy 
sea, whether regarded as serving man in the recesses 
of his own wonderful structure, or conveying from 
without the essentials of his life, water, as a blessing 
and a constant good, is unequaled and above all 
price. 



Water as a Health Agent, 



BY" ERNEST WKLLMAN, M. D. 



HOW TO GET WELL AND KEEP WELL. 

Water — the only menstruum, the proper drink, the necessary 
cleanser — comprises three-fourths of all organized existence — 
an indispensable necessity to all forms of life. Water is to 
animal organization what rivers and canals are to our social and 
commercial interests; it is the medium that floats the solid ma- 
terials of structure to their appropriate places. It is the circu- 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 179 

lating medium ; it is the solvent, the menstruum, that which 
keeps animal tissues soft and pliable, the blood a fluid, and ren- 
ders possible nutrition and life. 

Water not only enters into the composition of the blood, 
secretions and excretions, soft tissues, etc., but it forms part of 
the bones and even teeth. Indeed, it is necessarily found wher- 
ever changes in the structure takes place. Where old ingredi- 
ents are to be carried out and new ingredients of the structure 
introduced, water is necessarily employed. 

Without water in the organism, motion would be impossible. 
The muscles, ligaments, cartilages, tendons, would be stiff, 
inelastic, immovable. The human skin is about one-twenty-fifth 
part water; teeth, one-tenth water, bones, one-eighth; cartilage, 
one-half; muscle, three-fourths, brain and blood, four-fifths; 
bile, milk, and pancreatic juice, nine-tenths; urine, lymph, 
gastric juice, nineteen-twentieths; while persperation and saliva 
are only oue-fortieth part solid matter. Water is not only a 
permanent constituent of all organisms, and of all substances 
that enter into the composition of the human organism, but, 
like all other materials of organization, it is being constantly 
changed. It has been calculated that a healthy adult man takes 
into his system about four and a half pounds of water daily, 
and, of course, casts out as much Much of it he takes in with 
the food he eats, some of it as drink, while he casts out in the 
urine about two pounds, through the lungs one pound, and 
somewhat over a pound through the skin 

Pure water is that which contains no element save its own 
proper and unvarying constituents; but no water is perfectly 
pure. It is so powerful a solvent that it dissolves a little of 
nearly everything with which it comes in contact. But approx- 
imately pure water may be found, and it is very important for 
us that the purest shall be used. 

The impurities found in water may be described as mineral, 
vegetable, and animal. The form of mineral impurity found in 
the water generally used is salts of lime, either carbonate or 
sulphate, making what is known as hard w r ater. The proper 
test of hard water is soap. When soap comes in contact with 
the sulphate of lime, as in washing, it curdles, forming a new 
soap, which will not dissolve, and which is often seen floating 
on the surface in the form of a green scum. The better plan of 
testing water for lime is to '"dissolve a little soap in alcohol, 
and place a few drops of it in the water to be examined. If it 



180 THE HOME GUIDE. 

remains clear, the water is perfectly soft; if it becomes turbid 
or opaque, the water is ranked as hard." 

The vast importance of using only soft water for cooking, 
drinking, and bathing can be readily seen. The lime in hard 
water injures its solvent properties, and hence is not suitable 
for bathing. Hard water, nor any other containing impurities, 
should be used for cooking or drinking; because the impurities, 
of whatsoever kind, are foreign and adventitious matters, that 
can not be used in the vital processes, and hence only tend to 
obstruct and derange these processes, and to exhaust vital power 
in the attempt to cast them out. The kidneys are the organs 
that take up and cast out most of these mineral impurities. The 
lungs and skin carry out most of these mineral impurities. The 
lungs and skin carry off their water chiefly in the form of vapor, 
leaving the solid impurities behind. These solid impurities 
must be got rid of, and inasmuch as lungs and skin, and even 
bowels, will not dispose of them, the kidneys must. Hence the 
very serious tax on the kidneys wherever hard water is in 
general- use. It is not wonderful, therefore, that gravel stone 
in the bladder, and many kidney difficulties should exist. 
Hard water is irritating to mucous surfaces, obstructing to cir- 
culating fluids, and for various reasons a common cause of 
bilious, dyspeptic, and nervous disorders; or if not an adequate 
cause, certainl}" an aid in their development. 

Other mineral impurities in water are iron, soda, magnesia, 
chalk, etc., which always render the water objectionable for 
use. Thus we perceive the folly of employing mineral waters 
as curatives. They are only employed on principles that just- 
ify the employment of drugs. Mineral springs and drug-med- 
ical practice are natural allies. They are employed on the 
same principles and tend to produce the same results. Hygienic 
practice discards the one at the same time and for the same 
reasons that it discards the other. They both are poisonous, 
"and, as a consequence, every dose diminishes the vitality of 
the patient." 

If mineral, or inorganic impurities in water are poisonous, 
organic, or vegetable and animal impurities, are doubly so. A 
recent work, entitled, "Scientific Conversations," by M. Por- 
ville, of Paris, says: "Popular Science Monthly," gives the 
following reasons for considering organic matter in water dan- 
gerous to health: 



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'* How does organic matter become dangerous? We must not 
believe that it constitutes, as is superficially said, a toxic ele- 
ment. The phenomenon is more complex. The organic matter 
in suspension or in solution creates in the water a peculiar 
medium, suitable for the development of exceedingly small be- 
ings of the genus vibrio. It is no longer mere water; it is a 
world of microscopic animals and plants which are born, live, 
and increase with bewildering rapidity. The infusoria find in 
the water calcareous, magnesian, and ammoniacal salts, and 
their maintenance is thus secure. Drink a drop of this liquid 
and you swallow millions of minute beings. But there are 
vibrios and vibrios. There are those capable of setting up put- 
refaction in our tissues. These are our enemies, often our 
mortal enemies. Let water be placed in contact with organic 
remains capable of nourishing these malignant vibrios, and it 
at once becomes more dangerous than any poison." 

Let him, therefore, who desires good health, be scrupulously 
exact as to the quality of the water he drinks. Xext to pure 
air, pure water is the essential of life; and it should contain 
neither mineral, vegetable, nor animal matters. It should con- 
tain nothing that does not enter into its composition, and 
therefore must be fouud in all waters. 

How and where to obtain pure water is the next considera- 
tion, and a very important one. Water mingled with impurities 
is much more plentiful and more easily obtained than pure 
water; so that if we were not both intelligent and energetic 
with reference to this matter, we will be found contenting our- 
selves with water unfit for use. 

The sources of our water supply may be considered as: 

First, Well-water ; 

Second, River-water; 

Third, Rain-water; 

Fourth, Spring-water. 

The first is the great source of water-supply to the people in 
the country ; the second to the people in the cities; while the 
third and fourth are used incidentally and occasionally. As 
between well-water and river-water there is little choice ; never- 
theless, all wells do not furnish water of the same quality; nor 
do all rivers. But the conditions for receiving and preserving 
water in wells and rivers are very unsatisfactory; and large 
amounts of impurities are necessarily held in solution in these 
reservoirs. Well-water is usually hard, and hard water, we have 
seen, is unfit for use But its hard quality is not its worst feat- 
ure. Surface-drippings are a fearful source of impurit)' in 
bot.i wells and rivers. The worst case of typhoid fever I have 



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ever treated was the result largely of drippings of animal ex- 
cretions into a well of water situated in a email country village, 
from which all the cows, as well as most of the human inhab- 
itants, received water, and around which, at no great distance, 
several pig-pens were found. 

River-water is not generally as hard as well-water; but that 
it receives the washiugs and tilth from the whole country 
through which it passes, including that from the sewers, gut- 
ters, privies, etc., of the towns, is well known. How can such 
water be tit for use? And yet how many millions of our people 
use no other! Epidemics and endemics thrive in our cities 
quite as much because of the impurity of the water as because 
of impurity of the air. To say that people can live hygienically 
under such influences, is absurd. 

Rain-water is pure in comparison with well or river-water, 
and is for all purposes decidedly preferable. In the first place, 
it is entirely soft, and the only impurities which it contains, if 
kept in clean cisterns, are those which it gathers while falling 
through the air, or because of its washing the roofs of the 
houses from which it is caught. But these impurities may be 
avoided, for they are of a character that can be easilj" taken out 
by passing it through a filter. A cistern built with two com- 
partments, separated from each other by a partition filled with 
charcoal, sponge, sand, gravel, etc., will preserve water, if 
well covered, in a fit state for use to an extent that wells and 
rivers never can. A Kedzie water-filter is an additional aid 
toward purifying soft water, if from any cause it becomes im- 
pure. A filter is valueless for hard water. This can best be 
improved for use by boiling, which separates the lime and ren- 
ders the water approximately soft. Boiling will also aid in 
destroying any vegetable or animal growths in water, and so 
often improve its quality. 

Soft spring-water is the appropriate water for hygienic use. 
If not absolutely pure, it may nevertheless be found superior 
in purity to all others, unless it be distilled water. Hygienic 
treatment and hygienic methods of living pre-suppose an abund- 
ance of pure, soft spring- water; cool, sweet, and refreshing; 
unadulterated by any substances whatever; water suitable for 
cooking, washing, bathing, drinking; water that should be 
a tempting beverage in its natural state, without any admix- 
tures; water in which art plays no part, but in which nature 
has furnished all that is necessary to health, life and longevity. 



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To such water we commend our readers as the divinest of 
drinks— as nature's own production. 

How properly to use it, is the question next in order. 



The Way to Keep Sick, 



BY W. PERKINS. 



Some things in this world are too hard to be understood. 
An able lawyer in Kausas said the more one reads the statutes 
of that State the less he knows about them. In like manner the 
more one reads the popular ways of trying to get well, the more 
is he puzzled to find the least common sense therein. Indeed, 
why sick persons outside of insane asylums will persist in doing 
all which, with the least show of decent moderation, could be 
done to seriously impair their constitutions and lead on to death, 
presents a problem too hard for ordinary minds to solve. 

At this writing I am visiting the family of a kind relative 
whose daughter has been ill for a week with sore throat and 
fever. She washes the ulcer with a liquid poison, sleeps from 
8 p. m. to 7 a. m. in a close little room, on a feather bed, and 
on rising comes to the table to eat indigestible bread, meat, 
gravy, and butter, washed down with coffee and then sits or 
lies in a close store-room till the evening hour for bed again 
comes round; eating in the meantime two more meals. To 
walk abroad, breathe the pure air, and enjoy the delicious 
breezes would, as her prescription has it, be hazardous ; while 
to do just that which, if well, would make her sick is in accord- 
ance with the direction of the doctor and her parents. Tedious 
recoveries, relapses, and deaths seem never to disturb their con- 
fidence in the old way of trying to cure. While failures in other 
departments often induces doubt as to the modus operandi, they 
seldom, if ever do in the momentous department of health, dis- 
ease and death. The most common employe is held strictly to 
accomplish what he undertakes, while the old fossilized doctor 
may, in nearly all his cases, do precisely the opposite of what 
he is employed to do, and yet gets his pay as if he had achieved 
the most perfect success. As his patients linger, and even ago- 
nize, for tedious years, under ruined constitutions, or his poi- 



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sons drop others suddenly into graves, it is believed and pro- 
claimed that the Lord's irresistible hand has been laid upon 
them, which it were impious for the doctor— even were it pos- 
sible — to thwart. All who get well in spite of the most unhy- 
gienic remedies are cured thereby, while all who perish under 
them are killed by an All wise Providence! 

Another puzzle is to see through the stupidity that seeks not 
to ascertain the providence in advance; so as to save the worse 
than useless visits, drugging and heavy bills of the doctors. 
As our wisest men are insisting, recently, that spiritualists 
show the real good to be accomplished by their revelations, it 
would seem that in this department they have a fair chance for 
usefulness. Let the spirits tell when one gets sick whether he 
must perish under an irresistible providence, or whether the 
drug doctor can drug him well. Do this and the science is es- 
tablished and its patrons blessed as the benefactors of their 
hitherto afflicted, perplexed and disappointed race. 

As T mucn fear this is not to be done, permit a suggestion 
for at least the partial relief of the at present hopeless sufferers. 
Appeal to the mercy of the doctors, that they remit half of their 
usual fees when the result shows that the decrees of Providence 
rendered the cure impossible. Let there be an equitable part- 
nership as to the profits and losses. If the doctor must drug 
in utter hopelessness against such stern decrees, like the storms 
aud waves against Gibraltar, then in the name of mercy let him 
get but half his pay for his folly. If the afflicted family must 
suffer their crushing bereavement, the science and drugs of the 
doctor notwithstanding, would it be unfair for him to suffer the 
loss of but half his big fat fee? 

As, however, there is about as little hope of relief in this di- 
rection, as in that of the spiritualists, one more suggestion is 
ventured. Let the sharp and, if not a contradiction, occult sci- 
ence of medicine probe at once into these mysterious provi- 
dences, and prognosis forms a part of the profession. Let a 
chair be inaugurated on the symptoms of the patient so as to di- 
vine a priori the providence. Then may we attain to the most 
useful discrimination between the curable and the incurable 
cases for this our age of progress beyond all restraints; it were 
a burning shame to be conquered by providences, acting, too upon 
the bodies and souls of ourselves. Can it be that neither pa- 
tient nor doctor can even guess at the start, and whether the 
case can be made to yield to the most potent drugs or is to per- 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 185 

ish under the stern decree? Homeopathy might succumb 
under its lightpellets, but not allopathy, with its heroic doses of 
blue mass, calomel, croton oil, prussie acid, etc. If these can, 
after all, take no effect upon a stern decree, can not the sharp- 
ness of the doctor's science, aided by every symptom of his 
confiding, communicative patient, ascertain with reasonable cer- 
tainty, at least before the rubicon is crossed, that the decree 
fatalizes the sad result? 

One fact the writer is in this connection moved to announce. 
Three or four sick cases, of his dear friends the doctors gave up 
to die, ceasiug their doses, and the poor sufferers recovered under 
the friendly actions of nature. Medical science and decrees 
retired as the vis medicatrix natura was allowed to work. Had 
this been done at the first instead of the last dose, much suffer- 
ing, in almost every way. had been spared. 

Can we in view of this but partial consideration of this pain- 
ful subject, improve upon Franklin's maxim, "Nature cures; 
doctors collect the fees"? or can we gainsay the other yet 
more attractive — 

"Nature rights the injuries done her; 
Drugs and doctors get the honor"? 



Perfect Food. 



Before we can know what is perfect or proper 
food and what is not, we must understand the real 
needs of the body to be fed. But first we must 
carefully distinguish need from want, and real ne- 
cessity from taste and d-esire. A man may want 
lard, whisky or tobacco, but he needs neither of 
them. He may be exceedingly fond of either of 
these things, but to claim this as a reason why he 
needs, or ought to have them, would be absurd. 
Yet vast multitudes of people, if not the most of 
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their 'Mikes and dislikes" when they select, prepare 
and use their food. 

The only true necessity in the case is that the de- 
mand created by the bodily waste or growth shall 
be fully met. When growth is reached, all parts of 
a healthy body waste away equally ; that is to say, 
the nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, lime, soda, silicon 
and all the other elements are needed and should be 
supplied in just that proportion in which they form 
the human structure. The supply must, in the most 
accurate and truest sense of the words, equal the 
demand. These needed materials or elements are 
found in certain natural growths ; nor is this all, in 
these growths they are found in exactly the right 
proportion. Whatever name one chooses to give 
the creative power, whatever or whoever the Creator 
mav be or be called in the reader's theolo^v, one thin^ 
is certain, that the Creator of man's body knew 
what is best for it, and because He saw it was best, 
furnished it. Man is the only animal that has ever 
undertaken to improve on the perfect food which is 
offered in natural growths, like grain, etc. With 
the other animals, all of them healthier than man is, 
the only question is an adequate supply. They 
never turn away from nature's food, as nature gives 
it because it is not cooked or mixed up with, what is 
injurious. Give them grass, hay, grain, nuts, veg- 
etables, and they are content and grow fat. The 
only diseases they know come largely, if not entirely, 
from bad food or bad treatment at the hand of man. 

A most significant and instructive fact is that, 
when we make two analyses, one of the human 
body and another of grain and vegetables, we find 
that the two, laid side by side, agree perfectly. 
For example, nitrogen is in a certain proportion the 
body — in the grain-food you find it there, just as it 
is required, and so on through all the list of the 
component parts of the structure of man ; for each 
you find its exact counterpart or supply in the grain 



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and vegetables. The exact reverse of this is seen 
when man, leaving nature's supply, selects and pre- 
pares outside of her very liberal bill of fare. Take 
one single instance, out of the many which space 
will not permit us to name. Say a man's body 
weighs 154 pounds ; of this twenty-one pounds is 
fat, or carbon, or about one-seventh part. Proper 
or perfect food will exactly match this proportion, 
that is, in just this very scale, of one to seven, it 
will contain carbon, or fat — which is the great heat 
producing element. But suppose the man eats a 
slice of bacon. Now, he is taking in the heat-pro- 
ducer at the rate of seven to ten, or five times as 
much as is right for health according to the composi- 
tion of his body. An analysis of butter, sugar, 
white flour, etc., would give similar results ; for in- 
stance, here is the make-up of butter: Water, 
fifteen parts ; salts, two parts, and fat eighty-three 
parts, or about six times greater than the proper 
proportion. And yet, forsooth, the man who tells 
people that bacon and butter are not proper or per- 
fect foods is called a crank! Well, if telling the 
truth, with facts and figures to back me up, is the 
sign of a crank, I hope to be one as long as life 
lasts. 



FOOD FOR MAN. 

As already stated, an analysis of the various 
grains, wheat, rye, etc., and of fruits and vegeta- 
bles shows them to contain what the body needs and 
in the exactly right proportion. AA'heat heads the 
list, being absolutely without an equal ; then rye, 
oats and barley. Wheat must not be deprived of 
one atom of the whole grain ; bran and all must be 
used. If some would-be adviser tells you that the 
bran is indigestible, and therefore not good, you 



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may reply that it has a very important purpose and 
work to perform in the body, without which no one 
can have health and comfort. The bran in the 
whole-wheat flour gives volume to the faeces, or 
stools., and so renders the passages easy. This can 
be proven by any one who will let whole-wheat flour 
be the food, or the chief part of the food, for one 
week. The wheat and other grains named may be 
prepared in many ways. Cracked wheat, rolled 
wheat, rolled oats, whole-barley meal are excellent 
and delicious, as also mush made of any of then:. 
If made into bread, no soda, salt, lard or butter 
should be used. Keep the poisons out. Whole- 
wheat flour, with water and nothing else whatever, 
can be made into " gems " as light as they are de- 
licious. Simply mix the flour and water to a thick 
batter, put it into a cast-iron (not tin) " gem-pan," 
which has first been made quite hot, and then very 
slightly greased, bake in a quick oven. Nothing 
need be lighter or nicer than the "gems" thus 
made, but keep out shortening, salt, butter, sugar, 
and, in fact, everything but the flour and water. 
Let any cook or housewife devote half the time to 
getting foods on the table plain, natural and un- 
poisoned, which is now given to spoiling them, and 
there will be no complaint as to lack of variety. 

Next to grains, as above named, come the vegeta- 
bles, such as beans, peas, turnips, potatoes (if with 
beef), and the like, not omitting the very excellent 
celery. If cooked at all, the plainest way is the 
best. If cooked with meat it should be lean beef or 
mutton, but, as a rule, the less meat the better. 
Leave out the vile stuff called seasoning. The pro- 
cess of boiling robs food of the very important ele- 
ment of the fluid or material it derived, in its growth, 
from the air. The heat and moisture dissolve it and 
it will pass off in boiling, in spite of all attempts to 
stop it. The grains mentioned and some vegetables 
may be cooked a little, but turnips, cabbage, lettuce 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 189 

and celery may well be eaten raw. Please remember 
we are trying to mid out what is good for people, 
and not what they like or have been accustomed to. 
Under the head of vegetables, an almost endless 
variety awaits man's use. As to fruits, those which 
contain much acid should be avoided, such as cur- 
rants, gooseberries, and most cherries, the sourer 
varieties of the-apple, etc. Leaving these aside, and 
beginning the list with grapes, tigs, dates, pears, and 
the like, we shall find no lack in nature's bill of fare. 
Of nuts, many kinds are excellent, but excess in eat- 
ing any kind is to be avoided. Pieplant, preserves, 
jellies, pickles, fruit-butters, etc., and especially 
canned fruits of all kinds, if in tin, should be un- 
touched — unless you take hold of them to throw 
them away. Put up fruit (if at all) and vegetables, 
in glass. Of meats, lean beef, mutton, and espe- 
cially wild game, in short, any of them, leaving out 
pork and all hog products, may be eaten, provided 
the quantity be but small. Beef should always be 
cooked rare, and the other meats named should 
never be done enough to make them tough and dry. 
Eggs contain phosphorus in too great a proportion 
to their entire substance for them to be anything like 
a staple article of food. Eat but few of them, and 
not many oysters, if any at all. Veal is unmatured, 
hence not proper food. Fish may be classed as a 
second or third-rate food. Cheese is to be un- 
touched. We have now reached the all-important 
subject of 

BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD. 

We saw under Analysis of the Human Structure 
that in a man's body weighing 154 pounds, there are 
nearly two pounds of phosphorus. It is clear there- 
fore that proper or perfect food should contain this 
most essential element which is in fact the chief in- 
gredient in the make-up of nerves and brain. Un- 
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them as they waste away there can be neither health 
or vigor. When we look at the foods just now 
enumerated, wheat, rye, etc., and the vegetables, 
etc., named, we find they contain phosphorus. But 
the modern process of milling and cooking takes it 
all out, and so, while those foods were perfect when 
in their natural state and form, when they have passed 
through the hands of the miller and the cook they 
lack almost entirely one of the most important ele- 
ments or ingredients of good food. Whole wheat is 
perfect food ; white flour is wretchedly imperfect. 
The vegetable, as it grew, was perfect food, but 
when, by boiling, its phosphorus has passed away 
into the water, it is very much short of being proper 
or perfect food for man who has both nerves and 
brain constantly needing phosphorus. Oats contain 
nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus, very largely. 
And so, as a race-horse is made up of brain and 
nerve, bone and muscle ; for his brain and nerve, to 
make him ambitious and quick, we feed him the phos- 
phorus, to build his bones finely and strongly, the 
calcium ; and to furnish elastic, powerful muscles, 
we feed the nitrogen, — and we do all this at once by 
giving him oats. (See the article on Powerful An- 
imals.) 

The fatty materials, so often and so generally 
eaten are objectionable for two reasons : First, they 
contain no phosphorus ; in white flour there is little 
or none, as it was taken away in milling. Lard, fat 
pork, butter, etc., do not contain it, and so all these 
are deficient in the essential phosphorus for brain 
and nerve. Second, these fatty materials, being 
chiefly carbon or fuel, cause when eaten, a high de- 
gree of heat in the body, and this heat or excess of 
heat inflames and irritates the brain and nerves, which 
being but imperfectly supplied with their needful 
food, phosphorus, are weak and debilitated. There 
is another fact in this connection, which is that these 
fatty materials not only fail to meet the body's needs 



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but fill it with corrupt matter. This decays and rots 
brain and nerves, as well as other parts, and only 
disease and misery can follow. So, therefore, we 
find three causes for nervousness and brain disease, 
viz., first, lack of phosphorus-yielding food; sec- 
ond, too great a temperature of heat; third, rotten 
or corrupt matter in the system, decaying brain, and 
nerve already out of condition by the first and sec- 
ond named causes. 

Any diet or system of food, in order to be a per- 
fect one must be marked by the three characteristics 
following: First, the food eaten each day should 
contain all the same elements found in the human 
body when in perfect health; second, these ele- 
ments should be in the food in the same proportions 
as they are in the body; third, the food must be 
eaten in its natural state, or prepared, if at all, in 
such a manner that none of its elements are sub- 
tracted and no injurious materials added. It is self- 
evident that neglect of the last condition will render 
any great benefit arising from observance of the 
first and second an utter impossibility. 

Believing that, by the use of the plainest language 
and illustrations, this important subject has been 
made clear, I will now add an example from history 
showing what a food or diet of unbolted or whole- 
ground wheat flour will do. It is an extract from 
English history, and may easily be verified : 

" In England, under the administration of William Pitt, for 
two years or more, there was a scarcity of wheat, and, to make 
it hold out longer. Parliament passed a law that the army 
should have their bread made of unbolted or whole-wheat 
flour. The result was that the health of the soldiers improved 
so much as to be a subject of surprise to themselves, the officers 
and the physicians. The latter came out publicly and declared 
that the soldiers never before were so robust and healthy, and 
that disease had nearly disappeared from the army. The civic 
physicians joined and pronounced it the healthiest bread; and, 
for a time, schools, families, and public institutions used it 



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almost exclusively. Even the nobility, convinced by the facts, 
adopted it for their common diet; and the fashion continued a 
long time after the scarcity ceased, until more luxurious habits 
resumed their sway." 

I will, in closing this subject, suggest that a 
change from bad food to perfect may, in the case of 
a well person, be made gradually. Change from 
white to whole wheat, or Graham flour, first ; then 
give up the pork and such things as I have named as 
in the same class ; but, dear reader, in your " taper- 
ing off" be firm, resolute and honest, and don't 
make the taper too long or the last end will be 
the biggest. 



Powerful Animals. 



If eating fat makes strength, suppose you prove 
it by putting a hog on a race-track matched against 
a blooded horse. Failing in that attempt, look at 
the grain-eating horse — a very wonder of bone and 
muscle, and nerve, and power, put together in perfect 
shape. Try to get him to eat fat — he knows better. 
If you have not yet learned the lesson, look at other 
animals, the mules, oxen, camels, elephants, see the 
power by which they are doing the hardest of earth's 
toil ; for endurance, where is their equal? for speed, 
where can you match the deer, elk, antelope, rabbit, 
and squirrel? What do they all eat? Grains, veg- 
etables and nuts. What do they drink? Water. 
Friend, you may have been eating fat pork, lard, 
butter, sugar and other carbonaceous or fatty things 
for thirty years, but your diet has not given you 
sufficient strength to overthrow that argument just 
given— and I guess you know it. 



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Venison is just as much better food than hog- 
meat as the nimble, muscular deer is fleeter than the 
lazy, greasy occupant of the pen. Everyone knows 
that deer meat is almost entirely lean flesh. As ob- 
served by Joseph Bentley, in Hearth and Home: 

" All animals that work live on vegetable food; and no ani- 
mal that eats flesh works. The all-powerful elephant, and the 
patient, untiring camel, in the torrid zone: the ox, the donkey 
and mule in the temperate; and the reindeer in the frigid zone, 
obtain all their muscular power for enduring labor, from 
nature's simplest production — the vegetable kingdom. But all 
the flesh-eating animals keep the rest of animated creation in 
constant dread of them. They seldom eat vegetable food, 
until some other animal has eaten it first and made it into flesh. 
Their only use seems to be to destroy life — their own flesh is 
unfit for other animals to eat, having been itself made out of 
flesh, and is most foul and offensive. Great strength, fleetness 
of foot, usefulness, cleanliness, and docility, are, then, always 
characteristic of vegetable-eating animals, while all the world 
dreads flesh-eaters." 



Hog-Eaters. 



You may get a true idea of hog-meat as an article 
of food by an experiment with smallpox. Let a 
hog-eater have that disease and you will observe how 
full of rotten and corrupt matter his whole system 
is. In fact, no other expression than " full of cor- 
ruption" will lit the case. On the other hand, trv 
tbe same experiment on a man whose food for thirty 
days has been grain, fruits and vegetables. Neither 
you nor he need fear the outcome in his case — for he 
will not have the smallpox at all. There is nothing 
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in his grain-built body to cause or feed smallpox. 
The hog-eater has a yellow skin, the man that lives 
on the small grains, in bread or mush, has a clear, 
clean, healthy skin, through which you may see the 
veins in his face. In his whole structure there is no 
impurity, none of that corrupt matter which is the 
essence or seed of such diseases as consumption, 
catarrh of the head, scrofula, sore eyes or ears, 
ulcers, boils and many others. I know many of my 
readers have learned to call this disease-seed poison, 
but its true name is corrupt matter, made from and 
out of the pork, lard, sugar, oils, etc., eaten as 
food. Call it not poison, but shun it as poison 
hereafter, as I do. An argument about as old as 
pork-eating and quite as sensible is, "What is the 
hog made for, if not to be eaten?" Were I to ask 
what the buzzard is made for, you would say, " He's 
a scavenger ; he is made to eat up the filth and off- 
scourings of the earth." Yes, and if a dead hog 
and a dead ox lie together in the same field the buz- 
zard will go to the hog carcass first. If the buzzard 
himself should die, there's no living thing except 
carrion-worms that will eat his body. If possible, 
the hog outdoes the buzzard in filthiness ; not onlv 
does he delight like the foul bird to fill himself with 
impurity and rottenness, but having made his dis- 
gusting meal, hunts for the dirtiest hole to lie down 
and snooze it off in. The other day I saw a sow 
eating a dead, rotten hog by the roadside. Should 
the sow's owner ever ask me to dine off his pork, 1 
ought, in order to return the compliment in kind, 
get a nice fat buzzard — one of the sort you can 
smell forty rods — and having killed it and cooked 
it, send a pressing invitation to him to come and 
share the feast with me. My buzzard would be just 
exactly as fit to eat as his hog ; there 's a little dif- 
ference in the name, that 's all. 



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Fats. 



The proportion of fat, or its equivalent, in butter 
is 83 per cent. ; in lard, 90 per cent. ; in white flour, 
90 per cent. ; sugar, after extracting water, 95 per 
cent. One ounce of butter produces as much heat 
in the human body, as ten ounces of lean beef, or 
four ounces of Graham flour. Why, then, need 
there be any wonder or uncertainty as to what fever 
is, seeing that fever is common heat to that exces- 
sive degree which is caused by eating too much fat. 
Looking at the list at the heading, one sees they are 
almost entire! v fat — heat generators. When taken 
into the system they putrifv and rot it. (See 
Smallpox.) All of these articles are artificial pro- 
ductions ; from each and all of them the nitrogen 
has been taken away, and nitrogen is the essential 
element in and for lean flesh or muscle. Besides 
the nitrogen, they have been deprived of lime, pot- 
ash and soda, which are the great bone-builders, and 
phosphorus, which is the very substance and life of 
the brain and the nerves. Thus all these parts of 
the human structure are being starved while the fat 
is eaten to excess, and that excess rots, putrifies, 
inflames, and makes corrupt matter in the body, and 
so prepares it for the smallpox, or kindred diseases. 



The Air. 



We are all conscious of being surrounded by an 
invisible sea. Though the eye perceives it not, its 
existence is demonstrated by the force its waves and 
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of air in which we live, and move, and have our be- 
ing, separating its component substances or elements, 
we find carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, hy- 
drogen, and traces, more or less distinct, of other 
things. It is very difficult for the mind to grasp 
the immensity of the fact that this air, consisting of 
these parts named, is constantly passing into and out 
of every living thing on earth, be it man, beast, tree, 
or plant ; and no less certain is the fact that it is 
thrown off into space from every rotting and decay- 
ing material wherever found upon the earth's sur- 
face. Taken by breathing into the lungs, it is taken 
up by them and by the proper agencies carried to all 
the various parts of the body, furnishing a very im- 
portant proportion of flesh and heat, or heat-making 
material. 

It is important to recognize and properly value the 
fact that the open space may be, at certain times, 
more heavily charged with one or all of these com- 
ponent parts of the air than at others. When a co- 
pious rain-fall occurs in hot w r eather, the amount of 
material evolved or thrown out into space is greater 
than in dry, cold, weather. This is proven, as well 
as nicely illustrated, by examining a fence-post, ten 
or twelve years in the ground. Digging: it up, we 
find the top quite sound, — because it was dry during 
the greater part of the time. Looking at the ex- 
treme lower end, we find it rotted or decayed but 
little, if any at all. The point where the decay is 
greatest, and perhaps absolutely complete, is at the 
surface of the earth, and for, say, six inches below 
it, or, exactly where the heat and moisture are both 
retained and meet together. From this we obtain 
the important fact that decay results from the com- 
bined action of heat and moisture. 

Ague and bilious fevers are most prevalent in low, 
swampy districts — are seldom found elsewhere, and 
very rarely on mountains, if at all. Now, while the 
explanation of this is very simple its importance as 



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to health can not be overestimated. It is — these dis- 
eases are — by natural and unnatural conditions. As 
to the first, in those districts, and in river bottoms 
also, the decay of vegetation is exceedingly great. 
By this the carbon, to an immense amount, is taken 
out of or released from the decaying substances and 
thrown where it settles by its weight, near the land, 
producing of course an excess of that great heat- 
breeding element. As to the unnatural conditions, 
or those brought in by man and not nature, we 
know that in such bottoms and swampy localities, 
the food eaten, such as pork, molasses, corn-meal, 
white-flour, etc., contains an excess of carbon — most 
of these, as fat pork, being almost wholly of it. By 
reference to my article on Malaria a Humbug, this 
will be more fully applied practically. 

The principal part of all living structures, whether 
man, animal, or vegetable, is water. Of the remain- 
der, aside from the mineral substances, the larger 
part is derived from the open space or air, — larger, 
I believe, than from food itself. Now, as the min- 
eral substances amount to only three pounds in a 
hundred, it may be seen how all-important pure air, 
day and night, is for the maintenance of the body in 
constant health. When one deprives himself of pure 
air, faintness and debility follow. An open window 
let down from the top, and sunlight freely admitted 
are worth more than all the fashion and pride that 
causes misguided victims disease the world over. 
It seems as if a child could understand that in order 
to build a pure or healthy structure one must use 
pure or healthy materials, and so, considering that 
the value of good air has been made evident, T will 
add a practical illustration of the effects of 

FOUL AIR. 

The other morning I went to church where the 
house was filled with people. The stoves were hot, 
the room all closed up, every window tight, and no 



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fresh or pure air admitted in any way whatever. 
Were this the proper place, a sermon might be 
written here on the insulting impiety of excluding 
one of the best gifts of the Creator while professedly 
engaged in worshipping Him, as this preacher and 
his people did ; but let us look at the physical state 
of things only in that meeting. From every human 
structure in that room, from the hundreds of lungs 
and from the millions on millions of skin-pores in 
that congregation, there was constantly passing off, 
for about two hours, that which is certain disease, 
if not quick destruction, to lungs, head and flesh, if 
breathed again. I mean to say that from each body 
there, by the breath and by the exudations of the 
skin, there were really and actually streams of cor- 
rupt matter, or the essence of disease, poured forth 
for hours. From this statement, brief as it is, and 
by no means strained or exaggerated, it is evident 
that the atmosphere immediately surrounding each 
of these persons was so vitiated and tilled with im- 
purity that it may be regarded as unmixed corrup- 
tion ; and as surely as corruption breeds disease 
and is the parent and source of it, so that air is also 
— practically, we might use the word " corruption'* 
instead of " air" when speaking of the atmosphere 
in that church. 

It may be well to call in the aid of a little simple 
arithmetic to give a true idea of what actually tran- 
spired in that foul air that morning. Looking at 
books written by men who claim to have made such 
subjects their life-study, we see that they do not 
agree as to the amount of pure or unbreathed air a 
person requires each hour for health. Some claim, 
for instance, that the requirement is 500 cubic feet 
per hour, while others insist that not less than 3,000 
cubic feet per hour is needed. Let us take the 
amount as 1,000 cubic feet per hour, needed by each 
individual. According to a very liberal measure- 
ment of the room, it contained 120,000 cubic feet 



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of air , the congregation numbered 200, at the very 
least. If "figures don't lie," in thirty-six minutes 
every particle of that air had been breathed. Of 
course, from the very start the process of filling it 
with corruption from lungs and pores was going on, 
so that, as no fresh air was admitted, at a very early 
stage of the meeting each person had breathed in 
more or less of the foul exhalations of his neigh- 
bors' s lungs and skin, and had repaid the same in 
kind. Nor must I omit to state that the preacher 
that morning puts not only the " Rev." before his 
name but "Si. D." after it, he being an old school 
doctor of medicine. Leaving each reader to form 
his own conclusions as to the ignorance or something 
worse thus displayed by this titled teacher (?), I 
will only add that he had "a bad cold" — was so 
hoarse that he could scarcely talk, but no doubt he 
and some others would call that an affliction sent by 
Divine Providence. It is a falsehood ; it is a base 
slander to say such things of the Creator. That 
cold and hoarseness, and all the bad colds and all 
other diseases which were " caught" that morning, 
can be, in right and justice, charged only to human 
ignorance, human mulishness and human folly ! May 
this incident, taken as it is from real life, so impress 
my readers that hereafter pure air in abundance will 
be put down as absolutely essential to health. 



Carbon, or Oil and Grease, 



Oil and grease, consisting as they do almost en- 
tirely of carbon, I shall use these words interchange- 
ably, practically, and for my present purpose, they 
are all the same. In this sense it is proper, though 
perhaps startling, to say the open space, or air, is 



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full of oil. To show this, take some oil and burn it. 
It is not destroyed ; not a particle of it is annihil- 
ated nor ceases to exist ; it passes into the open space. 
Growths of all kind contain carbon, some more and 
some less, but it is a very considerable component 
part of all. Take a load of hay, straw, corn-stalks, 
wood, wool, or even an animal, bones and all, burn 
them, and with the exception of three or four pounds 
out of every hundred, it all passes with a mighty 
energy into open space. Just as truly as it came, 
in the burning, from plant, tree, vegetable, or ani- 
mal, so truly also is it now stored up in nature's 
great reservoir, the air, ready to be re-made into 
animal, vegetable, plant or tree again. The follow- 
ing brilliant passage is from a work of Prof. Joseph 
P. Cooke, Jr. : 

"When standing before a grand conflagration, witnessing 
the display of mighty energies there in action, and seeing the 
elements rushing into combination with a force which no human 
energy can withstand, does it seem as if any power could undo 
that work of destruction, and rebuild those beams and rafters 
which are melting into air? Yet, in a few years they will be 
re-built. This mighty force will be overcome ; not, however, 
as we might expect, amid the convulsions of uature or the 
clashing of the elements, but silently in a delicate leaf waving 
in the sunshine. The sun's rays are the Ithuriel wand which 
exerts the mighty power, and under the direction of that un- 
erring Architect, whom all true science recognizes, the woody 
structure will be re-built, and fresh energy stored away to be 
used, or wasted, in some future conflagration."' 

As burning, and rotting, and decaying are practi- 
cally one and the same process, only performed in 
periods of time differing in length, we may say, for 
sake of brevity, that all the wood, vegetables, and 
animals that ever rotted away were burned. There- 
fore, to all that we have been able to conceive of as 
thrown off into the air by fires and great conflagra- 
tions, we must add all that rotting or decaying has 



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deposited in the same great store-house. What 
mind can grasp this tremendous aggregate ; what in- 
tellect, short of the Creator's, can follow this unceas- 
ing and stupendous round of work? Not one particle 
or atom is lost, destroyed or annihilated ; not one 
single atom, even the tiniest of them all, has passed 
out of existence since creation ; nor has one such 
come into existence since then. Millions of times 
each has changed its visible habiliment, no doubt, 
but otherwise it has been, and is, unchangeable and 
indestructible. 

In its bearing upon the questions of food and 
health, this immense supply of oil and grease (or 
carbon) in the air deserves still further study. In 
those districts where heat and moisture together are 
the greatest, decay is also the greatest and most 
rapid, and therefore in river bottoms, notably the 
valleys of the Ohio and the Mississippi, or the Mis- 
souri, and all such tracts, the covering atmosphere 
is most abundantly tilled with carbon, or plainly 
speaking oil, fat or grease, — the great producer of 
heat. Nor should it be forgotten here that fever, so 
called, is heat in excess. Naturally then, to be in 
harmony with the laws of health, the inhabitants of 
the localities named should eat no grease fat, oil, or 
other form of carbon or heat ; but, as we know, the 
very reverse of this is their practice. Hog-meat, 
corn-bread and molasses, three times a day, seven 
days in the week, is about the rule there. No won- 
der that fevers, chills, agues, and all such diseases 
abound there in such deadly profusion and power ! 

Turning from man's folly and his blunders, both 
indeed suicidal, let us pass to an instructive and 
beautiful illustration of the Creator's wisdom. A 
survey of the tropical zone shows that there, where 
the heat is the greatest, there is little moisture; so 
that decay, or the process of throwing off of oil and 
grease or carbon into the air is exceedingly slight. 
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more, — just the reverse of man's practice. There, 
also, in those hot countries, fruits and vegetables, 
containing little carbon or heat, grow abundantly 
for man's food ; indeed they grow spontaneously, 
almost without his exerting that labor for which, by 
such a temperature, man is unfitted almost wholly. 
Furthermore, as recent investigations have shown, 
the amount of oil and grease (or carbon) in corn and 
some other grains grown in the hot tropics is far less 
than what is found in the same grains when raised 
in temperate and more northern and colder regions. 
For every hundred miles the examiner travels north- 
ward, he finds an additional and regularly increasing 
amount of carbon or heat. 

Let others do as they please, but I for one, will 
gladly record my most profound adoration of the 
Creator in the presence of such admirable and be- 
nevolent manifestations of His wisdom and His good- 
ness to man. Would that all might not only thus 
adore, but learn and practice the lessons as to health 
so clearly taught by His works and plans. 



Feeling or Tasting, Which? 



A traveler on the highway often comes to a point 
where two roads meet. He must choose between 
the two before going further, nor is it a matter of 
small moment which road he takes. One leads to 
home, fireside, comfort, loved ones, and happiness; 
the other road, perhaps equally inviting at first, leads 
to swamps, mud, disaster, and midnight darkness. 

Before every reader of the Home Guide there is 
just such "a fork in the road," — just such a choice 
as meets the traveler homeward-bound. On one 



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hand, say the right, (for it is right in every sense), 
lies a road which we will call feeling ; the other, the 
left, (and you will get " badly left" if you take it), 
we will name tasting. The question is, which do you 
prefer, feeling well during the twenty-four hours, 
sleeping well for ten hours, free from dreams and 
nightmare ; or do you choose tasting for fifteen or 
twenty minutes, three times a day, that which bad 
training has taught you to call nice? You must 
choose for yourselves ; no one can make the choice 
for you. 

If "feeling" is your choice your mind will be 
clear, unexcited, never unduly stimulated; content- 
ment and an inward satisfaction, which is only ap- 
preciated when felt, will be your lot. Even any self- 
denial which previous indulgence may render neces- 
sary, will become a source of pleasure by the con- 
sciousness of self-control and the evidence that your 
body is your servant, not your despotic master. 
But, if, on the contrary "tasting" is your prefer- 
erence, the short-lived gratification it offers must be 
bought at a fearful price. Your entire bodily struct- 
ure will soon become filled more or less completely 
with corrupt matter, which by the very law of its 
nature, and from the very fact that effect follows 
cause, must work evil, and only evil continually. 
Feverish, nervous dreams, horridly vivid visions of 
falling, drowning, fighting; of snakes, bulls, dogs 
pursuing and overtaking you ; jerking, struggling to 
escape from brandished knives and leveled guns ; 
blood-curdling sights of mountains toppling over on 
you, and you powerless to move, midnight thirst ; 
parching your throat while visions of cool streams 
flow by just out of reach while you groan for water ; 
a bitter, sickening taste tilling the mouth when you 
wake with the longed-for morning light, a stomach 
hot, irritated, and sore, turns against the morning 
meal, and thus, with this sickened body and dis- 
turbed mind you begin the day. This is only a part 



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of your lot if ''tasting" is your choice. The fut- 
ure offers no assurance of better things to you, but, 
on the contrary there is, added to present discomfort, 
the almost absolute certainty that disease in some 
form or manner, awaits you; the seed is sown, and 
mortal never heard truer words than " whatsoever a 
man soweth that shall he also reap." 

This road we have named "tasting" is an easy 
one to travel only in the sense that it is well greased ; 
plenty of fat, oil, butter and the like may be found 
on it, but after traveling that way for thirty-five years, 
I can honestly say that in all that weary time I found 
only evil, disease, and pain, headache, neuralgia, 
rheumatism and catarrh ; twelve years was I drug- 
ging and doctoring without any permanent relief, 
much less any cure. But, at length I learned the 
lesson, and although so far advanced on the wrong 
road that it seemed hardly fair to expect any benefit 
from taking the right one, yet, after fifteen years 
spent upon it, with fair Health as my constant com- 
panion, I can testify to the many comforts, advan- 
tages, delights and benefits it yields. 

To speak plainly and not in parables, the choice is 
between living to eat and eating to live. If my reader 
decides that henceforth he will eat to live, let him 
eat right and he will have right living, with countless 
benefits as his constant and unfailing reward. 



Follies of Man. 



Under such a heading volumes might be written, 
but let us single out two follies, or, rather, two 
ways, in which" the same folly of man is exhibited. 

First. As shown clearly and repeated in this 
book, man's bodv is a building. Though not the 



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creator of it, man himself is certainly the builder of 
it. To say that he desires health is only saying that 
he wants to have a good, sound, healthy building. 
And it is just at this point that his folly shows itself. 
If he happens to be a mechanic and undertakes to 
build a machine, a wagon, a mower, a boat, a dwell- 
ing, or a barn, he knows full well that in order to 
construct a good one he must unquestionably use 
good and only good materials, and only such as are 
adapted to the character of the structure to be built, 
and the object for which it is intended. He does 
not select buckeye wood, linwood or pine for a wagon, 
a mower, or a buggy. So, he selects his wood, his 
iron, and his steel of the right kind, and the best of 
its kind. Yet here, knowing all this, and putting it 
into practice in mechanical work, at the point he 
takes up the question of making a sound, serviceable 
human body, man's sense seems to leave him, and 
folly takes its place in governing his actions. Know- 
ing, as he does, that what he eats, drinks, and 
breathes is just so much material worked into his 
body, he eats, drinks, and breathes not the best, but 
the very worst and unfitted things he can find. Nay, 
he does not find them — that would imply afoul slan- 
der on nature — he makes them by unceasing toil and 
at unlimited expense. And so he builds with pork, 
lard, butter, sugar artificially produced, whisky, 
beer, tobacco, Hour deprived of its very best parts, 
molasses, candy, pies and cakes, and vainly imagines 
that, by some unknown power, these evil things put 
into his body will, when once there, construct an 
edifice healthy, durable, and sound. One-half the 
people in lunatic asylums to-day are not as insane as 
such a man is. He is expecting to gather grapes 
from thorns, or figs from thistles, or health from 
corruption. 

Man, having brain and nerve which must be fed, 
built upon and sustained by phosphorus, has given 
to him the wheat, which contains this essential ele- 



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ment in abundance ; but he, in his folly, invents and 
uses an expensive and laborous process for taking 
away from the wheat almost, or quite all, the phos- 
phorus, and then devours the remainder. No won-, 
der he is foolish — I almost said brainless and nerve- 
less. His body needs constantly an inner frame- 
work of sound, strong bone. Nature places in the 
oats, the wheat, the barley, just the needed lime — 
the great bone builder ; but man carefully bolts it 
it all out, or very nearly so. Thus he treats every 
supply for his body which the Creator furnishes, 
throwing away the best and most needed elements ; 
eats, or rather devours whole, what is left after it is 
made still more and more unfit by cooking, yeasting, 
salting and seasoning, and them probably blames his 
Creator for the evil consequences, i. e., diseases which 
follow. 

Second. Not only does man (mankind at large, 
I mean), cast away the right materials for bone, 
brain, nerve, and muscle-building, but he imposes 
upon himself (and his wife oftentimes), the tremend- 
ous burden of labor necessary to make or buy things 
worse than needless and always harmful. The cost 
of making wheat into white flour, with all the modern 
machinery for robbing it of its best elements ; the 
cost and labor of most cooking ; the misuse of all 
the capital thus invested, instead of being used to 
make the whole wheat cheaper ; the expense of mak- 
ing rye into whisky instead of bread ; the cost for 
drugs, doctors, courts, constables, jails, hospitals, 
and asylums, must all be added together and the 
tremendous total charged to that folly of man which, 
by its insane promptings, does not permit him to 
" let well enough alone." The necessities supplied, 
amply and richly as they are, do not satisfy ; what 
he calls luxuries must be had also, and frequently at 
the sacrifice of the real necessities of life. Many a 
man, many a family, is to-day living ( ?) in a poor, 
weather-beaten, leaky, unhealty dwelling house, with 



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old huts for window lights, who has spent more than 
a good house costs for pork, whisky, sugar, tobacco, 
emasculated wheat flour, and such things ; and then. 
in addition, has paid more than enough to furnish a 
good house comfortably, for drugs, doctors, coffins, 
and tombstones. As Puck says, quoting the poet, 
•• What fools these mortals be.'" This is not scold- 
ing or abusing anybody. I did the same myself for 
more than a quarter of a century, but, haying seen 
its folly, or rather haying been taught it by bitter ex- 
perience, I therefore speak plainly and earnestly. It 
is in proportion as a man brings his wants and desires 
into strict harmony with his real and true needs, that 
his health and happiness increase. 



Alcohol in the Human Body, 



Any book claiming to be a guide to health must 
not ignore the subject of alcohol. I shall, there- 
fore, without further preface, offer a few extracts 
relating to it. They are taken from a very valuable 
aud sensible work, by my esteemed friend, Dr. 
Kellogg, entitled, A Practical Manual of Health 
and Temperance. Published by the Health Pub- 
lishing: Co. : Battle Creek, Mich. 



ALCOHOL DESTROYS THE BLOOD. 

••When this fiery drag is taken into the stomach, it is soon 
absorbed into the circulation, where it comes into contact with 
the corpuscles of the blood. The effect upon these delicate and 
important srrnetnres we can study by applying alcohol to the 
blood outside of the body: for the corpuscles will retain their 
life and activity for several weeks after being removed from the 



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bod}', if placed under proper conditions. To make no mistake 
about this matter, we will perform the experiment while we 
write. Our microscope, which will magnify one million times, 
being in readiness, we thrust a needle into a finger, and thus 
obtain a tiny drop of blood. Placing it upon a glass slide, we 
adjust it upon the instrument and look at it. Although the film 
of blood in view is so thin as to be transparent, it is crowded 
with beautiful bi-concave discs, the red blood corpuscles, each 
of which is perfectly formed, though only j-^-q of an inch in 
diameter. Now we apply a drop of alcohol, a very tiny drop. 
Mark the effect. No sooner does it touch these little bodies 
than they begin to shrink, and soon lose all resemblance to 
their natural appearance. In a short time they are seen break- 
ing up into fragments; and in live minutes from the commence- 
ment of the experiment the once beautiful and symmetrical 
little bodies which compose one-half of the blood, are reduced 
to broken fragments and shapeless masses. They have been 
fairly cut in pieces and eaten up by the alcohol.' 1 



THE HEART OF A DRUNKEN MAN. 

" When alcohol is taken into the blood, it soon comes in 
contact with the nerve centers which govern the action of the 
heart. Its effect is the same as upon the other nerve centers. 
It paralyzes them, just as chloroform does the brain. Then the 
heart is like a steam engine without a governor, or a clock 
from which the pendulum has been removed. It runs down 
with wonderful rapidity. This effect is largely due, also, to 
the influence of alcohol upon the small blood-vessels, the nerves 
which control them becoming paralyzed, and they become 
dilated or relaxed, and so afford less resistance to the action 
of the heart, allowing it to beat too rapidly. This increased 
action is most unfortunately mistaken for increase of strength 
on the part of the organ, when it is mere increase of action, or 
wasted force. The amount of extra work done by the heart 
under the influence of liquor may be readily estimated. Dr. 
Parkes, by a series of careful experiments, found that the pulse 
of a man whose heart beat about seventy-four times a minute, 
or 106,000 times in twenty-four hours, when drinking only 
water, was, when under the influence of one ounce of alcohol 
per day, compelled to beat 430 times more in a day. Two 
ounces of alcohol per day caused an increase of 1,872 beats a 



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day. Four ounces required 12,960 extra beats. Six ounces 
drove the pulse up to 18.432 extra beats; and eight ounces to 
25,488 unnecessary beats, or nearly one-quarter more than 
when taking only water. The force exerted by the heart at 
each beat is about ten pounds. The actual amount of wasted 
force, then, in the above example, which was that of a young- 
man, was as follows: From the one ounce 4,300 pounds, that 
is. of force equivalent to that expended in lifting 4,300 pounds 
oue foot high in a minute; two ounces, 18,720 pounds waste. 
(This is the size of a very "light dram" or "nip"); eight 
ounces 254,880 pounds, or more than 127 tons wasted force. 
Others, too mumerous to name here, have repeated this and 
similar experiments, and have, in every instance, reached the 
same results." 



THE WHISKY FLUSH. 

" The local blood supply of the body is regulated by means 
of special nerves which follow the blood-vessels from the heart 
to their minutest distribution. One of the effects of alcohol is 
to parah'ze the centers in which these nerves originate, the 
effect of which is to allow the vessels to become unnaturally 
dilated, allowing too much blood to enter various parts, thus 
occasioning congestions and even inflammations. In this way 
the lungs, liver, heart or any other part of the body may be- 
come diseased. It is this which causes the drunkard's face to 
flush ; and not only the face but the whole body, the brain, the 
liver, every vital organ, is in the same state of congestion. Is 
it any wonder that the drinker feels depressed and enervated, 
and in need of a ' pick-me-up ' the next morning after a de- 
bauch, or that he falls so easy a victim to causes of disease 
which others escape? The system is prepared by the influence 
of the drug for any form of malady." 



THE DRINKER'S BRAIN. 

" The brain, when healthy, is so soft that it would not retain 
its shape but for the skull. The sharpest knife is required to 
cut it without mangling its structure. It is necessary to im- 
merse the organ in alcohol for weeks or months in order to 
harden it. when a careful examination is essential. A drunkard's 
brain presents a marked contrast. It is already hardened, 
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pickled almost. In the dissecting room it affords rare pleasure 
to the medical student to secure the desiccated brain of an old 
toper. A celebrated anatomist declared that he could tell a 
drunkard's brain in the dark, by the sense of touch alone. A 
London physician reported a case in which he found, upon 
making a post-mortem examination, so strong an odor of alcohol 
emanating from the brain, that lie applied a match to it, when 
it burst into a flame. The quantity of alcohol in the brain is 
sometimes so great that it can be collected by distillation after 
death. While every drinker's brain is not as hard as a pickled 
one, a brain-hardening and brain-stupifying process has cer- 
tainly commenced." 

As another very respectable author has said, "A 
stimulant is that which gets strength out of a man." 
It never does, it never can put any into him. Or, 
to quote our first author again : 

"A conclusive evidence that alcohol is not a food, is found in 
the fact that when taken into the system it undergoes no change 
such as foods undergo. It is alcohol in the still, alcohol in the 
stomach, alcohol in the blood, alcohol in the brain, in the liver, 
in all the tissues, and alcohol in the breath, in the perspiration, 
and in all the secretions. In short, alcohol is not used in the 
body, but leaves it as it enters, a rank poison. 

''Alcohol has the remarkable property of preventing decay 
in other substances. It has been suggested that this is an argu- 
ment in favor of its use as a beverage, as it may prevent the 
destruction of the tissues, and so preserve life. The argument 
is worthless, absolutely and utterly worthless. Alcohol pre- 
serves from decay, but not from death. It makes a very good 
pickle, but human pickles are not useful members of society*" 



ALCOHOL AND LIFE. 

Pour alcohol on or around a plant, and almost 
immediately it wilts and quickly dies. Take a bucket 
of water, pure and fresh, just what a fish likes, 
put the fish, or a frog, into it and there is life and 
activity. But add a small amount of alcohol and 



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there is almost instantly the death of both frog and 
fish. Such an active poison as this can not be other- 
wise than destructive to the man who drinks it. 



COMMON DRINKS. 

Many people, being forced to see the destructive 
nature of alcohol, indulge in popular drinks on the 
ground that they are not alcohol. For the benefit 
of such, here is a table of various drinks, showing 
the amount of alcohol in each : light beer, 5 to 8 
per cent. ; cider, 5 ; ale, 10 to 20 per cent. ; wine, 
7 to 25 per cent. ; gin, 39 ; whisky, 46 ; rum 48 per 
cent.; brand}', 54; and various brands of " Tem- 
perance Bitters'' are from 6 to 60 per cent, alcohol. 



Hasty Eating. 



Even the very best and most proper food may be 
made to do harm, if eaten improperly. Eating too 
fast, and at the same time drinking tea or coffee to 
wash the food down, is a custom as general as it is 
hurtful. In such a case of hasty eating, the food is 
not sufficiently masticated or ground up ; a needed 
supply of saliva is not collected in the mouth as it 
would be by proper chewing, the food, not rightly 
softened by the saliva, is " chucked " into the stom- 
ach in chunks, or bits, instead of reaching that much 
abused and overworked organ in the shape of a 
thick, fibrous paste, as it should do. The food, 
being in this shape, it necessarily remains too long 
in the stomach, upon which it has placed work not 
belonging to it at all, but to the teeth. This causes 



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irritation, inflammation, extreme heat, and this fre- 
quently causes dyspepsia The blood, which in- 
variably rushes to any distressed part, flowing to 
the stomach, leaves the limbs and muscles, lets them 
grow cold and weak, and as the pores of the skin 
are thus closed, as in all cold, the adipose or broken- 
down tissue can not be cast off through them, but is 
borne back to the stomach, where it increases the 
inflammation, producing fever, or heat, and decay 
in the muscles of the stomach, ending in soreness, 
pain and many forms of disease, such as bilious 
fever, intermittent fever, typhoid, etc., etc. 

This peculiarly American habit of hasty eating 
can be overcome by a firm determination and con- 
stant watchfulness. Thirty minutes is not too long 
a time for any properly eaten meal ; forty is better 
still. For every ten minutes, up to sixty, that you 
add to the thirty, as many years will be added to 
your life — your healthy and contented life, at least. 
Eat slowly ; drink neither tea, coffee, milk, water, 
or any other fluid with the meal. Kemember, when 
sitting down, what is the real purpose and benefit in 
eating ; which is to build up the body. If you want 
a good building, don't throw the chunks in at 
random, but grind them up fine. 



Freezing. 



Remedy. — First apply turpentine to the frozen 
part. Then put it into cold water, letting it remain 
there until the frost is all taken out, then wipe dry, 
and wrap or lay on a cloth saturated with turpentine 
to the part. I tried this myself with a frozen foot : 
it gave me no pain, did not swell, and recovered 
completely. 



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Bleeding at the Nose. 



This is caused by the blood flowing 1 to the head 
and bursting: the fine silk-like veins of the nose. 
The rush of blood to the head, accompanined by in- 
flammation, takes this means of escape. 

Remedy. — Put the limbs into hot water, wet the 
back of the neck with cold water at the same time, 
drink hot water or hot tea to cause the perspiration 
to flow freely, and the blood to resume its circulation 
through the limbs, etc. Drawing cold water up the 
nose will often stop a slight attack. As a preventive, 
bathe frequently, eat food as per directions under 
Perfect Food, and follow General Instructions. 



Regular Bathing, 



It is folly for any man or woman to expect per- 
fect health unless the skin is kept clean and in a 
healthy state, with its pores open so that corrupt 
matter may pass out by perspiration. This can not 
be done without bathing twice, or at the very least, 
once each week. This may be done at little or no 
expense, and if it does make a small amount of work, 
and take a little time, it's much cheaper than sickness 
and doctor's bills. Three simple ways may be sug- 
gested. First, have the room warm, fill a large 
bowl with mildly warm water, strip and wash all 
over, being careful to wipe thoroughly dry. Second, 
in a warm room, have a tub made twenty-eight inches 
high, with a section of one-third part, fourteen inches 
deep, cut out of the side. Through this opening 
the legs can come so as to bring the feet into a foot- 



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tub or bowl, which is placed alongside. Put warm 
water in both tubs, cover the whole person with a 
comfort. On getting out cover the whole body with 
a well-warmed sheet and rub the entire person vig- 
orously with it. Third, a full bath or immersion of 
the whole body in warm water where a regular bath 
tub is available. A warm sheet should be used to 
dry with, as it covers the person and so protects 
from draft. A little toilet or other good soap should 
be used in all the above methods. 



Nature's Food. 



Coarse or plain food accords with nature's laws, 
and the reason why you should eat ''rough" food 
is, it furnishes an aid, in the passage of the bowels, 
which must be kept open for the discharge of mat- 
ter needed for building up the body, in tissue or 
blood. Concentrated food passes into the circula- 
tion, leaving little or or nothing to pass through the 
bowels and, used too freely, or intemperately, which 
is the case with high livers generally, produces con- 
stipation. In a word, the bowels are "bound up" 
and become inflamed, causing diseases of almost all 
kinds. Extra carbon is thereb}^ thrown into the 
lungs and head, causing what you call colds ; but, 
instead, it is lung fever. Ask yourself what you 
would do for a horse that had been fed upon too 
much grain, and his bowels had become " bound 
up." Would you give him drugs? No, you would 
give him chop-feed and hay, if treating him right — 
something to fill up the bowels and pass through 
them. 

You, too, then, must eat less concentrated food, 
and keep the bowels open. Less carbon ; grain, as 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 215 

food, is as good for man as for a horse. Eat, then, 
bran and all, with plenty of fruit and vegetables; 
and you will have health and enjoy true happiness. 
If, in the matter of food and cost of feeding your- 
self, the amount, or weight, per hundred pounds, 
were oiven a horse, what would be the cost of the 
maintenance of a horse for one year? Think of it. 
The flesh, in both cases, is about the same, and the 
waste of the body proportionately the same. Why, 
then, so much costly preparation of injurious food 
for the human stomach? I have tried both styles 
of living, and speak from experience and observation 
when I say, there is no reason why any one should 
thus injure himself, destroy his enjoyment, and 
shorten an otherwise prolonged life of comfort and 
happiness. Try the better diet, dear reader, and 
find this is no dream but stubborn fact. Brown 
bread, boiled wheat, vegetables, lean meat and fruits 
for man ; grain, chop-feed, grass and vegetables for 
beast. 



A Little Advice, 



Avoid traveling doctors, lotteries, gift enterprises, 
patent rights, patent medicines of all kinds, all 
games of chance, all drugs and doctors, for what 
they want is your money. 

Instead of all the time wishing to get ahead of 
some one else, day in and day out, fretting and 
worrying about unnecessary things, give some thought 
to body and mind ; for the former is not required 
to make one's life happy : on the contrary will make 
you miserable. Inhaling pure air, and supplying 
only the body's waste with plain food, I now find 
life enjoyable, as compared with former conditions. 



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I can now do with about two kinds of plain, nutri- 
tious food at a meal. (On the subject of healthy 
food, see article in this work.) To be happy, 1 sav 
you must limit your desires ; and be content with 
your lot, if "having an honest occupation. If healthy, 
take care of your health, on these hygienic prin- 
ciples. 

There are too many things made and sold that are 
in nowise beneficial to mankind, of which it is best 
to "touch not, taste not, handle not." Some of 
these I have alluded to. 

By strict obedience to nature's laws, you should 
bathe at least once a week in milk-warm water, to 
keep the pores of the skin open ; and always keep 
the head cool and the feet warm. Keep cool all 
over — mind and body ; never get excited. Treat 
hot stoves and hot heads as mortal enemies. 



Lighten Labor, 



It is man's option to shorten labor by machinery. 
Great discoveries have been made in that direction 
in the last few years : steamboats, steamships, steam 
engines of all kinds. Almost all the power now 
used in running machinery is done by steam, even 
to plowing, ditching and road-making as connected 
with farming interests. Then there is the multitude 
of agricultural implements, now in use for the bene- 
fit of the farmer ; to say nothing of the hundreds of 
other machines in common use for the lessening of 
labor in the various industries of the world. Yet 
the people are weaker in body, if not in mind, with 
these superior advantages and improvements, than 
in preceding generations. The reason is, they live 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 217 

too fast and are running the human machine by 
steam. This is contrary to nature; hence the in- 
crease of invalids, and the fact that they do not 
•- live out half their days.'' 

A proper regard for these bodies of ours is to be 
found in discarding stimulants, and supplying only 
our real wants by lessening the number and kinds 
of food, or stuff, usually taken into the human 
stomach ; and using good plain food, manual labor, 
so vastly lessened by the use of valuable machinery, 
is made a blessing and not a curse. Labor is honor- 
able and necessary in human activities, and, with 
true hygiene, in the manner herein treated upon, 
becomes not only endurable, but real pleasure is in- 
creased one-half. Eat less and wear less ; be not 
"consumed of your lusts :" and, hard toil lessened, 
your body becomes strong, the mind vigorous, life 
sweetened, and •' length of days " added therewith. 



Instruction in Schools. 



There is great need of instruction to the rising 
generation, in our schools, on the cultivation of the 
human body ; something more thorough than the 
mere smattering now afforded. True, it is a matter 
that parents, themselves, should enforce at home, 
where it would be reasonable to suppose their ma- 
ternal relation to their offspring would lead them 
only to feed what is good for the perfection of their 
bodies, followed by information and example on the 
subject. But as this is not done under present con- 
ditions of society, and the pampering of appetites 
from the youngest to the oldest, parents and chil- 
dren alike, indulged in it, and the evils consequent 



218 THE HOME GUIDE. 

thereon constantly increasing ; in order to stop the 
degenerate tendencies of the times, practical teach- 
ing, if not schools devoted to the subject of reform 
on this and kindred subjects, is now needed. The 
rising generation, at least, should be taught to know 
what is healthy food and what is not — the elements 
of the body, — and what composes the different kinds 
used and alone necessary for sustaining it. The 
deleterious and poisonous food and drink, though in 
common use, needs to be analyzed and explained as 
to their common destructiveness. In this way, learn 
to use only that which is good and reject what is 
proven to be bad in its effects upon the human sys- 
tem. The benefit derived from the rays of the sun 
and electricity, light and air, of what these consist, 
and their operation upon the human frame, in and 
out doors, and the necessities arising therefrom in 
the construction of strong and healthy bodies, is the 
kind of instruction called for. 

The limits of this work not allowing of elabora- 
tion, let it suffice to say, now, in awakening atten- 
tion to this subject, in a word, teach how much food 
is to be derived from the elements — in breathing 
pure air, drinking pure water, eating only proper 
food, bathing frequently and keeping clean; and 
learn the mutations the body undergoes — the new 
flesh taken on, and what becomes of the old. Teach 
what are hurtful to the human temple in the use of 
narcotics, as tobacco, opium, tea, and coffee ; what 
all liquors are : what about fat meat, white flour, 
sugar, molasses, pickles, and all such things, in their 
destructive effects on the teeth, stomach, and bow- 
els, — indeed upon the entire human system. Teach 
what disease is, what produces it, and how to pre- 
vent it — how to cure disease without doctors and 
their medicines. So philanthropic an object as this, 
one so feasible and simple, appeals to the common 
sense of every discerning mind, as being eminently 
just and proper. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 219 

Cause Our Own Troubles, 



For fourteen years the writer was an invalid, suf- 
fering greatly from pleurisy, rheumatism, neuralgia, 
and general debility ; eating mixed foods and taking 
drugs most of the time till life became a burden. 
Two trips were taken South for the recovery of health, 
wintering over iu Texas ; and, living principally upon 
corn bread, got stout. Now, from eating this 
simple food, the sunny side of life is experienced, 
bringing peace and happiness. How great the 
change from that of suffering incessant pain, pangs 
and misery, taking nauseous medicines most of the 
time, chewing tobacco, and eating most everything 
in the old greasy style of living. With the diseases 
named, there would be a chilliness, dull headache, 
fever, cold feet, hot head, hot body, loss of mind, 
loss of sleep ; to die would have been a relief, at 
times. The system was tilled with carbon and oil, 
more than could be used by the body, hence the dis- 
ease. Oh, how pleasant and happy now, and the 
last eighteen months, since being restored. Not a 
drug is used in the family, composed of wife, self, 
and three little girls, all in the bloom and vigor of 
health. How sweet to live a natural, not an artifi- 
cial, life. Two years since it was the reverse of this. 
The girls, with ourselves, were unhealthy and rest- 
less. Now they are plump, rosy-cheeked, thin- 
skinned, fine-featured and full of active life. The 
eating of coarse food, the grains and luscious fruits, 
is what makes fine flesh, and, breathing pure air, 
active limbs and healthy bodies. Merry as the birds, 
young and old may enjoy such freedom, if they but 
follow the dictates of nature. 

We cause our own troubles, our diseases, discom- 
fort and misery. Let the cultivation of the body 
and soul of man be attended to, in their real inter- 



220 THE HOME GUIDE. 

ests , the goddess of fashion be undermined by anti- 
fashion, dress and health reform societies; eat 
healthy food, wear proper clothing, live much in the 
open air and well-ventilated houses ; keep out of 
debt, do business fairly and squarely, put your con- 
tracts in writing, not thinking every one honest or 
yourself free from mistakes ; leave no gaps open for 
lawsuits, litigations, or disputes, with neighbors, 
friends, or enemies ; live honestly, walk uprightly. 
Pursuing this course, you may come to "sit down 
under your own vine and fig trees, none daring to 
molest or make you afraid." 

Let the mind be cultivated, as well as the body, 
your reading being of a select, entertaining and in- 
structive character. Books of the exciting, blood- 
and-murder sort, and of the love-sickening kind, 
sensational papers and magazines, should never be 
allowed in the household or library. From the in- 
dulgence of these, is created and nourished that 
morbid taste for pernicious literature that engenders 
strife and trouble wherever found. It acts on the 
mind, producing impure thoughts and murderous 
intents. Shun these things as you would deadly 
poison. 

Excepting accidents, causing broken limbs, etc., 
the eating of unhealthy food, is the great cause of 
troubles to the body, and may be enumerated as 
follows : Fat pork, indeed swine-flesh in any and 
every way ; butter, sugar, molasses ; the fine white 
flour in general use ; mince pies, rich cakes, and all 
kinds of rich pastry ; candies, jellies, preserves and 
pickles ; pepper, spices, tea and coffee ; vinegar, 
and all fermented stuff : even hard water, impreg- 
nated with lime, which inflames the kidneys ; sour 
milk, soda, cream of tartar, and the different com- 
pounded nostrums, are life-destroyers ; salt fish and 
salt meat ; spirituous liquors of all kinds, and all 
kinds of patent medicines and bitters ; tobacco, 
cigars, and the most dangerous of all, the drugs used 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. '221 

by the drug-doctors. Fourteen years' experience 
under the old regime, contrasted with two years life 
and energy enjoyed by the new, leads me to speak 
thus plainly for the good of those in the land of the 
dving. I have been saved by strictly adhering to 
nature's laws, by eating healthy food, drinking pure 
water, and letting the sunshine and air into the house, 
and exercising in the open air. 



Healthy Food. 



The person who decides what shall be the food 
and drink of a family, and the modes of its prepa- 
ration, is the one who decides to a greater or less 
extent what shall be the health of that family. It 
is the opinion of most medical men, that intemper- 
ance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes 
of disease and death. If this be so, the woman w T ho 
wisely adapts the food and cooking of her family to 
the laws of health, removes one of the greatest risks 
which threaten the lives of those under her care. 
But, unfortunately, there is no other duty that has 
been involved in more doubt and perplexity. All 
material things on earth, whether solid, liquid, or 
gaseous, can be resolved into sixty-two simple sub- 
stances, only fourteen of which are in the human 
body : and these, in certain proportions, in all man- 
kind. Thus, in a man weighing 154 pounds are 
found 111 pounds oxygen gas, and 14 pounds hy- 
drogen gas. which united, form water; 21 pounds 
carbon ; 3 pounds, 8 ounces nitrogen gas ; 1 pound, 
12 ounces. 190 grains phosphorus ; 2 pounds cal- 
cium, the chief ingredient of bones; 2 ounces fluo- 
rine; 2 ounces. 219 grains sulphur; 2 ounces, 47 



222 THE HOME GUIDE. 

grains chlorine ; 2 ounces, 116 grains sodium ; 100 
grains iron ; 290 grains potassium ; 12 grains mag- 
nesium ; and 2 grains silicon. These simple sub- 
stances are constantly passing out of the body through 
the lungs, skin, and other excreting organs. It is 
found that certain of these excreting elements are 
used for one part of the body and others for other 
parts, and this in certain regular proportions. Thus 
carbon is the chief element of fat, and also supplies 
the fuel that combines with oxygen in the capillaries 
to produce animal heat. 

The nitrogen which we gain from our food and the 
air, is the chief element of muscle ; phosphorus is 
the chief element of brain and nerves ; and calcium 
or lime, is the hard portion of the bones. Iron is 
an important element of blood :• and silicon supplies 
the hardest parts of the teeth, nails and hair. 

We are perishing and being born again at every 
instant. We do literally enter over and over again 
into the womb of that Great Mother from whom we 
get our bones, and flesh 5 and blood and marrow. 
"I die daily," is true of all that live. If we cease 
to die, particle by particle, and be born anew in the 
same proportion, the whole movement of life comes 
to an end, and swift, universal, irreparable decay 
resolves our frames into the parent elements. The 
products of the internal fire which consumes us over 
and over again every year, pass off mainly in smoke 
and steam from the lungs and the skin. The smoke 
is only invisible because the combustion is so perfect. 
The steam is plain enough in our breaths on a frosty 
morning; and an over-driven horse will show us, on 
a large^cale, the cloud that i* always arising from 
our bodies. It is also a curious fact that in all arti- 
cles of food, the elements that nourish diverse parts 
of the body are divided into several portions, and 
also that the proportions correspond in a great de- 
gree to the wants of the body. For example, a ker- 
nel of wheat contains all the articles demanded for 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 223 

every part of the body, and represents, upon an en- 
larged scale, the position and proportions of the 
chief elements required. The white central part is 
the largest in quantity, and is chiefly carbon in the 
form of starch, which supplies fat and fuel for the 
capillaries. The shaded outer portion is chiefly ni- 
trogen, which nourishes the muscles, and the dark 
spot at the bottom is principally phosphorus, which 
nourishes the brain and nerves ; and these elements 
are in due proportion to the demands of the body. 
A portion of the outer covering of a wheat kernel 
holds lime, silica and iron, w 7 hich are needed by the 
body, and which are found in no other part of the 
grain . The woody fiber is not digested, but serves 
bv its bulk and stimulating agent to facilitate di- 
gestion. 

It is therefore evident that bread made of un- 
bolted flour is more healthful than that made of 
superfine flour. The process of bolting removes all 
the woody fiber, the lime needed for the bones, the 
silica for hair, nails and teeth ; the iron for the blood ; 
and most of the nitrogen and phosphorus needed for 
muscles, brain and nerves. Experiments on animals 
prove that fine flour alone, which is chiefly carbon, 
will not sustain life more than a month, while un- 
bolted flour furnishes all that is needed for every 
part of the body. These facts were ascertained by 
Liebig, the celebrated German chemist and physi- 
cist, w 7 ho, assisted by his Government, conducted 
experiments on a large scale, in prisons, in armies, 
and in hospitals. 

As an esculent, the Irish potato has come to be 
considered a greatly necessary article of food ; but 
the fact is, that this potato has a very large propor- 
tion of starch that supplies only fuel for the capil- 
laries, and very little nitrogen to feed the muscles, 
hence is not so much needed. 

From these statements it may be seen that one of 
the chief mistakes in providing food for families, 



224 THE HOME GUIDE. 

has been in changing the proportions of the elements 
nature has fitted for our food. 

It will be observed, then, why we should not eat 
so much concentrated food. It all passes into the 
circulation of the blood, and as much or more, in 
bulk, is taken into the stomach as a plainer, healthier 
sort ; hence proceeds gout, fever and all manner of 
diseases, because nothing scarcely is left to pass 
through the bowels and keep the body in healthy 
condition. Two kinds of such food as designated 
below, at a meal, relishes better, digests easier, makes 
one more robust, without being corpulent — explod- 
ing the old idea of keeping fat down by smoke — is 
fitted better for labor, the latter sharpening the ap- 
petite and preparing one to sleep sweetly. 



Healthy Houses, 



Houses two stories high, with large windows, are 
usually the most convenient and healthy, arranged 
so as to admit the sunshine into every room. The 
sleeping appartments should all be upstairs, and the 
windows let down from the top that pure air may 
have free access and all impure gases escape ; heavy 
blinds, as a consequence, will not be needed. Warm 
sunshine is as beneficial to man as to a plant ; so 
welcome it into your house and don't be afraid of it. 
Open fire-places and coal grates are healthy, but hot 
stoves in close rooms are particularly unhealthy. 
Keep carpets off your sitting rooms, as they catch 
too much dust, and every step taken upon them the 
dust is raised and taken into the lungs, to your in- 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 225 

jury- Green blinds, green-colored carpets, and green 
wall paper are all interdicted, because of the poison 
emitted from the Paris-green so largely used in these 
articles. Dye-stuffs, of most kinds, are poisonous, 
and often mix in the air which is breathed into the 
lungs. Shade trees should not be allowed too near 
a house, because of keeping the sun and air from 
having free circulation, and because of the unhealthy 
aroma arising from some kinds, as the Alanthus, or 
" Tree of Heaven." 

Cleanliness is highly necessary, both inside and 
outside the dwelling-house No rubbish should be 
allowed to accumulate about the doors or in the 
yards ; all out-houses, barns, etc., need to be reached, 
for health and convenience, by good footways ; that 
which is to be used as refuse, offal and manure, 
should be taken far enough away " to its own place," 
to the compost heap or pit ; and if "in the city full," 
everything of the sort needs to be thoroughly de- 
odorized. Every lawn and park, near dwellings, 
needs to be kept clear of rubbish and all impurities, 
as outdoor resorts of comfort and pleasure ; and if 
forest trees remain standing, they should be kept 
trimmed of their lowest branches, at least fifteen 
feet from the ground, as well as all dead limbs. If 
not already sown to blue-grass, do it in season, and 
cut down the grass two or three times in the course 
of the year. Then, abjuring fashion for fashion's 
sake, looking to the health of the body, and having 
a contented mind, you will come to learn whence 
true enjoyment springs. 
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A Word to the Ladies, 



Vast responsibilities, in this matter, rest upon the 
mothers and daughters of our land, as respects the 
bodily health of both and that of their future pro- 
geny. They consider flat-headed Indians, and other 
nations, barbarous, as they are, who cause any part 
of the human structure to be deformed by pressure. 
But look at yourselves, as, compressing the form 
nature gave, tight corsets and belts are used around 
the waist to distort and deform those bodies. Worst 
of all, the lungs and general health are soon affected 
by this course, consumption and death following. 
Nor is this alone the cause of diseases common to 
woman. Tight lacing, tight dressing, tight garters, 
tight shoes, the latter from half an inch to three- 
quarters of an inch narrower than the foot, besides 
being often too short, and thin-soled, are causes. 
Circulation is stopped, feet get cold, and the general 
health becomes bad. The blame of all this is then 
charged upon the Almighty, when it is your own 
barbarous conduct and slavery to fashion. If you 
want health and happiness, there must be a radical 
change. The chest must be allowed to expand, not 
compressed, and the lungs inhale pure air. More 
walking and riding horseback, roaming the fields, 
and, w r hile doing housework, it may be, also enforce 
such wholesome discipline upon your daughters. 

To this end, get shoes large enough and stout 
enough to be serviceable for both health and comfort, 
stockings suitable, and not thin and flimsy, regard- 
less of the weather, and be warmly but not profusely 
clad. Cook, eat and drink according to the dictates 
of nature, as herein suggested, if you would not be 
the sickly plants, full of pangs and pains, that all 
victims of the fashions of the day become. 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 227 

Physical Culture. 



" To the strong hand and strong head, the capa- 
cious lungs and vigorous frame, fall, and will always 
fall, the heavy burdens ; and where the heavy bur- 
dens fall, the great prizes fall too." — Laws of Life. 

4i It is said that the Duke of Wellington, when 
once looking on at the boys engaged in their sports 
in the playground at Eton, made the remark: * It 
was there that the battle of Waterloo was won !' ' 
— Samuel Smiles. 

" No man is in true health, who can not stand in 
the free air of heaven, with his feet on God's free 
turf, and thank his Creator for the simple luxury of 
physical existence." — T. W. Higginson. 

The first element of success needed by him who 
has wisely chosen his calling, is constitutional talent. 
By constitutional talent, we mean the warmth and 
vigor imparted to a man's ideas by superior bodily 
stamina, by a stout physical constitution. Till within 
a recent period, bodiculture, if it may be so called, 
has been neglected, and almost despised, in this 
country. Our books for the young have been full 
of praises of the midnight oil ; our oracles of edu- 
cation study, and Nodurna mane versate, versate 
diurna, has been the favorite motto in all our col- 
leges. It has been truly said that all the influence 
under which the young American, especially the stu- 
dent of the last generation, lived, taught him to 
despise the body, while the mind was goaded to a 
preternatural activity. They led him to associate 
muscle with rowdyism, ruddy cheeks with toddies, 
longwindedness with profane swearing, and broad 
shoulders with neglect of the ordinances of revealed 
religion. Tallness was the only sign of virtue toL 



228 THE HOME GUIDE. 

erated. Width and weight were held to indicate a 
steady tendency towards the State prison, and the 
model young man became pale, lanky, dyspeptic, 
desiring to be all soul, and regarding his body as the 
source of all his wretchedness. It is true, the 
majority of youth protested against this theory, and 
refused to be goaded to suicidal study, but not a few 
responded to the whip, with the results that are 
familiar to all. 

But within a few years, a revolution has taken 
place in public sentiment on this subject. We are 
beginning to see that the body, as well as the mind, 
has rights that must be respected. We are learning 
by bitter experience that if the mind, which rules 
the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample on 
its slave, the slave will not forgive the injury, but 
will rise and smite the oppressor. We are discov- 
ering that though the pale, sickly student may win 
the most prizes in college, it is the tough, sinewy 
one who will win the most prizes in life ; and that in 
every calling, other things being equal, the most 
successful man will be the one who has slept the 
soundest and digested the most dinners with the least 
difficulty. The doctrine of Pascal, that disease is 
the natural state of Christians, has now few be- 
lievers. We can not believe that the Creator thinks 
so ; else health would be the exception, and disease 
the rule. We rather hold the opinion of Dr. J. W. 
Alexander, who, when asked if he enjoyed the full 
assurance of faith, replied : " I think I do, except 
when the wind is from the east." 

It is now conceded on all hands that the mind has 
no right to build itself up at the expense of the 
body ; that it is no more justifiable in abandoning 
itself without restraint to its craving, than the body 
in yielding itself to sensual indulgence. The acute 
stimulants, the mental dreams, that produce this 
unnatural activity, or over-growth of the intellect, 
are as contrary to nature, and as hurtful to the man, 



CURE WITHOUT DRUGS. 221> 

as the coarser stimulants that unduly excite the 
body, " The mind," it has been well said, " should 
he a good, strong, healthy feeder, but not a glutton. 
When unduly stimulated, it wears out the mechan- 
ism of the body, like friction upon a machine not 
lubricated, and the growing weakness of the physi- 
cal frame nullities the power it encloses. " 

" It is now generally conceded," says Henry 
Ward Beecher. in one of his late admirable lectures 
to the theological students of Yale College, "that 
there is an organization which we call the nervous 
system in the human body, to which belong the func- 
tions of emotion, intelligence, and sensation, and 
that is connected intimately with the whole circula- 
tion of the blood, with the condition of the blood as 
affected by the liver, and by aeration in the lungs ; 
that the manufacture of the blood is dependent upon 
the stomach ; so a man is what he is, not in one 
part or another, but all over ; one part is intimately 
connected with the other, from the animal stomach 
to the throbbing brain ; and when a man thinks, he 
thinks the whole trunk through. Man's power comes 
from the generating forces that are in him, namely, 
the digestion of nutritious food into vitalized blood, 
made tine by oxygenation ; an organization by which 
that blood has free course to flow and be glorified ; 
a neck that will allow the blood to run up and down 
easily ; a brain properly organized and balanced : the 
whole system so compounded as to have suscepti- 
bilities and recuperative force ; immense energy to 
generate resources and facility to give them out ; all 
these elements go to determine what a man's work- 
ing power is." 

To do his work cheerfully and well, every pro- 
fessional man needs a working constitution, and this 
can be got only by daily exercise in the open air. 
The atmosphere we breathe is an exhalation of all 
the minerals of the globe, the most elaborately 
finished of all the Creator's works — the rock of asres 



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disintegrated and prepared for the life of man. 
Draughts of this are the true stimulant, more potent 
and healthful than champagne or cognac, "so cheap 
at the custom-house, so dear at the hotels." The 
thorough aeration of the blood by deep inhalations 
of air, so as to bring it in contact with the whole 
breathing surface of the lungs, is indispensable to 
him who would maintain that full vital power on 
which the vigorous working power of the brain so 
largely depends. 

Sydney Smith tells public speakers that if they 
would walk twelve miles before speaking, they would 
never break down. The English people understand 
this ; and hence, at the universities, boat-races, 
horseback rides, and ten-mile walks, are practically 
a part of the educational course. English lawyers 
and members of Parliament, acquire vigor of body 
and clearness of head for their arduous labors by 
riding with the hounds, shooting grouse on the 
Scottish moors, throwing the fly into the waters 
of Norway, or climbing the Alpine cliffs. Peel, 
Brougham, Lyndhurst, Campbell, Bright, Gladstone 
— nearly all the great political and legal leaders, the 
prodigious workers at the bar and in the Senate — 
have been full-chested men, who have been as sedu- 
lous to train their bodies as to train their intellects. 
If our American leaders accomplish less and die 
earlier, it is because they neglect the care of the 
body, and put will-force in the place of physical 
strength. 



PRACTICAL HINTS 



AND 



INFORMATION. 



Various subjects, not requiring extended notice, 
but intimately related to health and happiness, may 
now be referred to. 

Cold Feet. — The common cause is a stomach 
inflamed, irritated, and out of order. As the blood 
always flows to any distressed part, it rushes to and 
settles at the stomach, and leaves the limbs and feet 
cold. A free sweat, with use of oil and cayenne 
pepper afterwards, will be found a relief, or more 
probably a complete remedy, if proper attention to 
food is given, together with due regard to General 
Instructions elsewhere. 

Thin axd Tight Shoes. — Pride is the parent of 
the first. When worn in wet and cold weather the 
feet of course become cold, the pores are closed and 
the blood driven out of the feet. The corrupt mat- 
ter and adipose tissue being thus prevented from 
passing out through the skin, is carried back to 
various parts of the body. Hundreds and thousands 
of cases of consumption, catarrh, dropsy, typhoid, 



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lung and intermittent fevers, croup, scarlatina, scarlet 
fever, and many other diseases start in this way. 
Tight shoes, of course, compress and cramp the flesh 
of the foot, hindering the flow of blood and its work 
in carrying corrupt matter to the pores. For a 
remedy in either or both these cases above referred 
to, I know of nothing better than common sense, or 
as Sam Jones says, " Quit }'our meanness ! " 

Rest. — Like many other good things, this has its 
enemies. Haste to make money, worry and anxiety 
of any kind, artificial stimulants such as beer, to- 
bacco, liquor, tea and coffee, — all these are deadly 
foes to perfect rest, and if permitted to join hands 
with over-eating, will murder it, — whiie any one of 
the above single-handed will injure it. Drugs are 
but deadly substitutes for the true remedy which is 
to stop the cause, bathe frequently and regularly, 
and eat perfect food. 

Hair Dyes. — These are claimed to be harmless, 
but most are made of lead, silver, sulphur, and 
other ingredients which are, in fact, the rankest poi- 
son to scalp and hair. Leave them entirely alone. 

Salt. — This article, except as nature serves it up 
in vegetables, etc., is wholly unnecessary as an ac- 
companiment of food or seasoning. In fact some 
very easy tests show it poisonous. Thirty-five per 
cent, of salt is chlorate. This is down-right poison ; 
and in the form of a common salt its action will be 
seen by placing some of it on a plant, feeding it to 
a chicken, or a turkey, or a frog, or by putting 
some in a notch cut in a tree, — it will kill them all. 
Salt hardens and toughens meat, the same as arsenic 
does, and makes it very much like leather tanned by 
oak-bark. Deer, etc., eat salt only when passing 
from dry grass, etc., to green, — as a correction 
against diarrhoea. 



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Ice Water at Meals. — Words can scarcely ex- 
press how unwise and injurious this practice is. The 
ice water, making both the food and stomach cold, 
hinders digestion or stops it, for a time, altogether. 
The blood, drawn from the limbs to warm the dis- 
tressed organ and so help it recover normal temper- 
ature, bears to the internal parts the rotten and cor- 
rupt matter and tissue it was carrying to the pores. 
This corruption, settling at the stomach, produces 
all sorts of trouble, and is a prolific seed of disease. 
Dyspepsia and a long list of ailments and diseases 
have their start just here, ("old water should never 
be taken when food, in any considerable quantity at 
least, is on the stomach. 

Glucose. — As modern trickery is putting this sub- 
stance into so many articles which people eat, such 
as candy, sugar, molasses, elegant table syrups, and 
the like, a glance at the process by which it is made 
will furnish an additional argument against the use 
of any of the things named. My information comes 
direct from a gentleman for manv years engaged in 
making glucose in one of the largest factories in the 
United States, a factory by the way, owned by a 
syndicate which makes nearly all the glucose used 
in this country. They operate a dozen factories but 
the process in all is the same. The corn is ground 
into meal, out of this starch is made, which is then 
mixed with sulphuric acid. Any "one knowing at all 
what sulphuric acid is would be like my informant; 
he would never put anything containing it into his 
stomach. Applied to the skin, flesh or clothes, it 
destroys them very much as a red hot iron would do. 
An officer on a steamboat told me that once when 
his boat was carrying some of it in large bottles, 
called carboys, one of them was broken, and the acid 
got on his hands, clothes, and boots. The hands it 
burned like fire, and the garments and leather were 
quickly destroyed. The stuff can not be shipped 



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in wooden barrels, it would eat them up, and so it is 
put into glass. Refining sugar is a high-sounding 
word for mixing sugar and sulphuric acid or glucose. 
I saw a score, if not a hundred of the above named 
carboys, or big bottles, holding several gallons each, 
in the rear of a glucose factory in Peoria, 111., and 
the men told me their contents had been used as I 
have stated, i. e., to make gulcose, and it has ceased 
to be a secret that the latter is now used in more 
than twenty articles generally found upon the table. 
It is the principal substance or body of syrups, it is 
largely used in making apple-butter, jellies, candies, 
cakes, etc. Glucose fed to bees will kill them very 
quickly. Anything with it in them will disease and 
perhaps kill them. 

Fat and Healthy. — It is one of the worst of all 
mistakes to suppose that grain food will not yield 
enough fat or the heat-making element for the bod v. 
The following brief table shows the falsitv of such 
an idea. Remember, fat is for heat and nitrogen 
for muscle. 



GRAIN, ETC. 



PER CENT. PER CENT. 
FAT. NITROGEN. 

Wheat 66 .18 

Kye 66 .IS 

Oats 58 .21 

Beans 68 .16 

Peas ." 68 .16 

Vegetables the same according to solid material. 

Sunlight. — The weakness and prostration suffered 
bv many people is caused by lack of sunlight, which 
is barred out by shutters and blinds. This almost 
air-tight closing up is in itself extremely bad, as it 
causes an accumulation of effete matter in the room, 
generally if not accurately expressed by people mak- 
ing the remark "it smells musty." This, of itself, 
may produce disease. But human bodies need the 
light of the sun as much as do the plants, vegeta- 



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bles and trees. Try to grow either of the latter in 
a cellar or dark room, and all your care and attention 
will not make up for the lack of light. It has long 
been known that in hospitals by far the most patients 
who recover at all, recover on the south side of the 
building, where the sun shines more than on the 
north, where, as many records show, the mortality is 
the greatest. 

Work and Waste. — It would almost seem as if 
the Caucasian race loves to work just for the sake 
of work itself, and nothing else. Men really waste 
more than they use ; they put forth more exertion 
for needless and even harmful things than for the 
absolute necessities of life. More toil is given for 
beer, whisky, and tobacco than for bread and boohs 
together. Luxury and self-indulgence are really the 
greatest tyrants after all. No barbaric despot ever 
extorted such servile drudgery as fashion does in 
America to-day. A woman will wash a whole day, 
tugging and sweating over other people's filth, to 
get enough to buy a dead bird or one of his feathers 
to put in her hat. A man will work hard ten or 
twelve hours, and then give all he gets for it for the 
pleasure of hoisting ten drinks of liquid poison to 
his mouth and then perhaps serve the city or county 
ten or twenty days in working out a fine after that. 
Sugar, tea, pork, candy, coffee, butter, spices, doc- 
tors, druggists, medicine-makers, tobacco, liquor — 
these are some of the great leeches which, having 
fastened themselves on society — and probably on 
most of my readers — are gorging themselves with 
the people's life-blood and toil. But, as Barnum 
says, " the American people dearly like to be hum- 
bugged." 



>© 



Unmixed Folly. — Men and women pay more for 
the privilege of being sick than they do for being 
well. Two-thirds of their toil is to get those things 



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which breed disease and a share of what is left they 
2five for medicine that makes them worse. Health, 
on the contrary, imposes no such wrongs. It never 
presents any doctors' bills, or drug bills ; it says to 
the toiler, "Labor only for the necessary things," 
and so releases him or her from the burden and heat 
of life's day. 

Debit and Credit. — Give the Creator credit on 
your books with supplying wheat, oats, vegetables 
and fruits for your use at the very low price of rais- 
ing and gathering them. Charge yourself with the 
folly of turning away from this supply altogether 
or of changing its good qualities into bad by your 
own processes, and don't omit to debit yourself with 
all the work these processes entail, and the diseases 
thus produced by your vain attempt at being wiser 
than your Maker. 

Beef Tea. — This, although it may be put up in 
nice little jars, labeled, " Extract of beef, prepared 
by the world-renowned chemist, Baron Liebig," is 
a humbug. It claims to be made of lean flesh. But 
if this was really the case, it does not disprove my 
statement. Lean flesh itself does not contain the 
elements of a perfect food. Nitrogen or lean flesh 
is not dissolved by boiling water, while the lime, 
potash and soda, with a part of the carbon, do pass 
into the water, and so are lost as far as any nutri- 
tive value in the boiled beef is concerned. This de- 
ficiency as a food, characterizing beef tea, will be 
fully seen by referring to Analysis of the Human 
Structure. It will thus appear that anything lacking 
phosphorus, lime, potash, soda, silicon, etc., as beef 
tea does, should not be called food for the human 
body. Whole wheat, or Graham mush, or gruel of 
whole wheat flour, are better than beef tea in every 
respect. 



PRACTICAL HINTS. 237 

Ashes as a Fertilizer. — Many farmers and gar- 
deners go to great expense for bone-dust, under the 
impression that it is the grand fertilizer. That this 
idea is a mistaken one, is evident from the fact that 
bone-dust is about two-thirds carbon and atmospheric 
material. To prove the large amount of carbon in 
them, place bones in any common lye, prepared as 
for making soap. Break the bones into fine pieces 
and place in the lye, boil, and you have a very fair 
article of soap. As this carbon is atmospheric ma- 
terial and not taken up by the roots of plants, only 
about one-third of bone-dust is really a fertilizer, 
and hence it is a very expensive fertilizing agent. 
One thus buys so much that does not fertilize. 
Strong wood-ashes are, I believe, three times as 
valuable as bone-dust for fertilizing. My various 
experiments with them lead me to recommend as 
follows : On potatoes — After preparing the ground, 
make the furrows, and into them then sprinkle the 
wood ashes. Each plant will require only a small 
quantity. After doing this with some rows, I planted 
some without any ashes, and on digging had about 
half the yield in them as in the rows enriched by 
the ashes ; all other things were equal as to moisture, 
etc. The ashes made the difference. For wheat, 
the ground should be broken first, then apply the 
ashes, and then drill, etc. Forty bushels per acre 
of ashes will in this w T ay increase the yield fully one- 
third. The same put on timothy made the yield 
exactly double. Should any desire to see how truly 
and to what extent ashes are food to the plants, let 
him burn some straw, hay or corn stalks. All that 
remains, the lime, potash, soda, silicon and iron, 
(the ashes) are just so much food to be taken up by 
the plant-roots in future growths yet to appear in 
some part of nature's vast domain. What passes 
up and away in space, the leaves will yet absorb, 
though neither you nor your children may ever sit 
under their grateful shade. By this same experi- 



238 THE HOME GLIDE. 

ment, you may learn what amount of ashes to srive 
each plant or kind of plant, viz., by the quantity 
remaining after burning some of any one kind. 
Practically, the amount to be put on the land is a 
little larger than the residue of ashes is, as some 
waste is obviously unavoidable. 

Patent Medicines and Drugs. — If all the his- 
tory of the dark ages were ransacked, a greater hum- 
bug or superstition could not be found, in all those 
musty records of ignorance, than the theories and 
beliefs now commonly held relating to medicines, 
drugs, blood-purifying bitters, liver-pills, and the 
whole list of preparations, patented or unpatented, 
sold by the car-load in America. And yet, notwith- 
standing this immense trade in such things, if one 
asks either seller, or buyer, or doctor, the following 
simple and very reasonable question, he is com- 
pletely befuddled : ''How can a patent medicine, 
or any other drug purify the blood? how can it cast 
out of the body the rotten matter or the broken- 
down tissue, while the skin-pores are closed ? ' ' Ages 
oil ages before drugs, druggists, or patents were 
heard of, the Creator appointed these pores of the 
skin to be the outlets for this corruption and waste, 
and most beautifully did He adapt and arrange them 
for carrying it off. So long as these are closed and 
choked, of what use is it to feed high-sounding, 
latin-named poisons to the inside organs which, 
poor things, are badly enough off already? Water, 
or blood and perspiration, is the only material with 
which and by which the corruption and waste can be 
removed. It has been proven times almost without 
number that by a certain healthy diet, with bathing, 
practiced for thirty days, a man, without any drug 
or medicine whatever, can render his body proof 
against smallpox ; or if he continues the diet and bath 
for fifteen to eighteen days he may, if exposed, have 
that disease, but can not and will not have it other- 



PRACTICAL HINTS. 239 

wise than very slightly. Now, professors and doc- 
tors know and admit all this, but are not honest 
enough, I fear, to go a little further and put in prac- 
tice what these proofs show, viz., that medicine is 
not necessary to health and it does not cure disease. 
By a ''cure" I mean a removal of it, root and 
branch, from the whole human system. No doubt 
any certain disease may appear, for a time, to be 
cured, or relief given, but it is by bringing on another 
disease, or debility, for drugs and medicines have 
no power to do more. I fearlessly declare that doc- 
tors of the old schools do not know, or at least will 
not tell, what the seed or secret of disease is. How 
then can they give real and proper remedies. 

Old Sayings and Old Hobbies. — One of the worst 
and falsest of them is " one man's food is another's 
poison," meaning that while a certain article of food 
or a certain diet is good for one man it may be just 
the vevy worst for another. This is utterly false. 
Different occupations may possibly require a little 
variation in the proportion of some of the elements 
of food, as for example a brain-worker may require 
more phosphorus than a wood-chopper, and the lat- 
ter more nitrogen and calcium than the other worker, 
but on a proper grain and vegetable diet that matter 
would be well regulated by nature herself. I went 
to the Indiana Northern Penitentiary, at Michigan 
City, for the very purpose of seeing whether there 
is any truth, or shadow of truth, in the saying quoted. 
I found six hundred people, with all the differences 
in ages, temperaments, previous habits, etc., natu- 
rally expected in so many persons, but all of them 
were fed the same food, a plain simple diet, spoiled 
by no luxuries, and not only the officers but my own 
eye bore witness to the wonderfully good degree of 
uniform health, almost without any exceptions, 
shared equally by all. The warden declared that 
all, or nearly all the prisoners had better health than 



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before imprisonment, by their own voluntary state- 
ments, and compared with the same number of out- 
siders I am sure that health and strength were more 
generally inside the walls than outside. The bodies 
of all men are composed of the same elementary 
substances. Therefore, the saying referred to has 
no foundation in fact whatever. 

Law Protects Wolves, But Not Sheep. — The 
old-time doctors, aware that their practice is based 
on error and thrives on ignorance ; knowing and 
fearing that better things would come in with in- 
creasing intelligence, and so their occupation be 
gone, have had numerous laws passed for their own 
protection. And so you must employ a " licensed " 
doctor, or none. In other words, you must not em- 
ploy the one your own judgment selects, but the one 
who has, by the law he made, selected and appointed 
himself for you. No one, be he the most competent 
and conscientious man on earth to furnish you a cure 
or treatment, is allowed to do so unless the old 
fogies are willing, which, of course, they are not, 
until he wears their brand. And yet this is called a 
free country ! Alas ! things are often in fact very 
different from what we call them. I submit, that 
any profession which asks for any protection not 
given by law to every private citizen, even the hum- 
blest and poorest, is a system of trickery and fraud. 
Every other profession or trade but this one asks 
nothing further than the privilege of standing or 
falling" according to its merits. This one requires 
the props of law and injustice to prevent its corrup- 
tion from falling to pieces by its own weight. 

Liquid Ruin. — About a year ago, a lady living on 
the corner of Pennsylvania and Ohio streets, in 
Indianapolis, was sick. The titled, high-priced doc- 
tor gave her medicine. Here are two facts about 
the deadly drug he prescribed. It corroded and 



PRACTICAL HINTS. 241 

partially eat away the bowl of a spoon accidentally 
left in a part of a dose over night. Some few drops 
of the stuff were accidentally spilt on the linen table 
cloth, and it burnt a hole there in twenty minutes, 
fairly eating up the fabric. A man who was quite 
unwell, but had to travel, started from Philadelphia 
for Indianapolis a few weeks ago. Before getting 
on the train he stepped into a drug-store (or poison- 
shop), and had tilled a prescription which his doctor 
had given him an hour before. He put the bottle 
of medicine into his valise, but by some accidental 
kick the vial was broken. After a few hours the 
man opened the valise to take a dose, but behold, the 
stuff had not only run out all over his shirts, hand- 
kerchiefs and socks, but had actually eaten holes in 
every article it had touched. An Indianapolis lady, 
to whom this gentleman is engaged, told the writer 
the above facts. Now, what must be the effect of 
such medicines as these two upon the delicate mem- 
branes and exquisitely fine fibres and workmanship 
of which, and by which, the interior of the human 
body is constructed? I leave you to imagine it — it 
can not be described. The other day a man well 
known to the author to be reliable, told me a bottle 
of medicine for rheumatism was broken in his inside 
pocket. Spilling out, the stuff ate big holes in his 
vest and shirts, and even caused a sore place on his 
skin. Is it not about time, O reader! to wake up? 

About a Fish. — There is in every fish a little 
piece of the Creator's wonderful mechanism w 7 hich 
may well excite our admiration . It is the air-bladder. 
The bones being composed of mineral substances, 
are heavier than the water, while the flesh is about 
equal weight with the element in which the fish lives ; 
so that he would sink were it not for the beautiful 
contrivance before us. This being filled with air, 
or. as I am inclined to believe, hydrogen, which 
is lighter than the water, the bladder serves as a 
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perfect balance, and he can therefore float at will 
without any effort or motion . When the'fish is small , 
say one-eighth of an inch long, the air-bladder is 
small in proportion, but it increases with his growth, 
and when the fish reaches fifty or a hundred pounds 
in weight, the balance is found absolutely perfect. 
Two problems 1 will leave with my readers for solu- 
tion. First: How and from whence does the in- 
creased volume of air, or hydrogen, reach and enter 
the bladder to keep it constantly filled as it grows? 
Second : This globe of ours is a hollow sphere, 
whose interior is filled with molten matter. This 
internal heat manufactures natural gas, which is 
mostly hydrogen, which is the very lightest element 
or gas known to man. Now, I ask, is this inflation 
or filling of the earth with this extremely light gas, 
the true reason why our globe floats in space? 
Reasoning from analogy, it is the cause of the earth 
floating in space or air, as Ave have seen the fish does 
in water, by an interior inflation with an element 
lighter than the water in which he floats. 

Boiler Explosions. — Having some experience in 
such matters, and as I was an eye-witness of a cele- 
brated boiler explosion on the State Fair grounds, at 
Indianapolis, I will speak of the cause of this and 
other explosions. As is known to so many, the large 
boiler of Sinker & Davis exploded at the place named 
killing many people, and wounding still more. I 
w T as distant from the boiler only about eighty, or 
perhaps ninety feet. I was deeply impressed with 
the immensity of the power by which not only so 
many were instantly killed, but the boiler was torn 
to atoms, while huge pieces of machinery and iron 
were blown to a great distance in a moment. 

Now, as to my theory of the cause. When the 
boiler becomes nearly dry, and, the water being 
then quickly formed into steam, leaves the flues, and 
these become intensely hot. When they reach a 
certain high degree of temperature the oxygen and 






PRACTICAL HINTS. 243 

hydrogen separate . The hydrogen being sixteen times 
lighter than the oxygen, rises above it and the oxy- 
gen passes downward. Hydrogen is very explosive, 
as any one may see by looking at natural gas, which 
is mostly hydrogen. Now, when this hydrogen in 
the boiler, rising clear of the oxygen, comes in con- 
tact with the intensely heated flues, it takes fire in 
less than the thousandth part of a second. The 
power it exerts by ignition is greater than that of 
gunpowder, and probably equal to dynamite. 

The idea of engineers generally is, that an explo- 
sion is caused by injecting cold water, and that by 
the sudden contraction produced by cold, the violent 
concussion is brought about. It seems more reason- 
able to say that there is really no contraction at all, 
but rather an awfully great and violent expansion, 
for nothing else than some immense power working 
from within outwardly, can account for the throwing 
of great weights to long distances — as was the case 
in the explosion above referred to. 

The safest way, in fact the only safe way, is never 
to let the water in the boiler get low, and if, by any 
means unforseen, it should do this, the fire should 
be drawn at once. 

A word as to bursting of feed pipes. My attention 
was once called to a boiler in Lebanon, Ind. The 
pipe had been burst while attempting to force water 
through it into the boiler. An examination revealed 
a solid formation of lime in the pipe, near where it 
entered the boiler, so that only an opening not larger 
than that in a straw remained. In utter ignorance 
of this, the pumps had been started, and, as^a matter 
of course, the water, having no outlet, or next to 
none, had to burst the pipe This brings out a very 
important matter for all who have to do with boilers, 
especially where the water used contains lime. 

Canned Tomatoes. — Many people are poisoned 
by canned tomatoes for the simple reason that the 
acid in the tomatoes dissolves the metal,— the lead 



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and tin. When thus combined by thischemical ac- 
tion a deadly poison is formed from the effects of 
which many suffer without being aware of the true 
cause of their ailment. 

Canned Fruits. — When canned in tin which con- 
tains acid, the acid dissolves the lead and tin, and 
these two combined make a deadly poison. More 
people are poisoned in this way than is generally 
believed. 

Setting Trees and Plants. — In setting trees, 
dig a hole in the earth, and before doing anything 
else, prepare some earth, enriched with well-rotted 
manure. Take a sharp knife, cut the roots off back 
to where wood and bark are perfectly sound. The 
reason for this cutting is that any bruised ends will 
simply rot and decay. After the tree is set out the 
sap begins to flow, and flows out between the bark 
and the wood of the root, forming new roots at the 
end of the old ones. Now place the tree in the hole, 
putting the prepared earth around the roots, setting 
it snugly around them by two or three bucketfuls of 
water, and this will also assist in the speedy flow of 
sap. Place a good layer of wet straw, or some such 
thing, around the tree on the ground after filling the 
hole. This will retain the moisture where it is 
needed. Plants should be set in the spring, with 
ground well prepared. For raspberries and black- 
berries make furrows, put the roots quite deep in 
the earth, cover thoroughly and cultivate well the 
first season, and in the fall cover the earth with 
straw. By this latter you keep down the growth of 
weeds in the spring, as well as retain the moisture 
in the earth while the berries are ripening, thus sav- 
ing them from drying up when the usual dry period 
comes. The straw also acts as a manure or fertil- 
izer. For these several reasons it should always be 
used liberally. 



